Definitions

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the qualities of a doctor.

Etymologies

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From doctor +‎ -ish.

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Examples

  • So basically yeah, I either tough it out and try to sleep, or go visit/call doctorish people, neither option sounds particularly GOOD but the trying to sleep is the simplest for now.

    jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2007

  • An unmistakably "doctorish" odour accompanied him -- an odour not disagreeable but associated with modern means for securing perfect cleanliness.

    Mrs. Red Pepper 1912

  • Another quick Google turns up a bit of likely doctorish mumbo jumbo.

    White Cat Holly Black 2010

  • Another quick Google turns up a bit of likely doctorish mumbo jumbo.

    White Cat Holly Black 2010

  • I will do doctorish things, like prescriptively read and reduce charts.

    Here 2009

  • KING: Can you, without being too doctorish, tell me what you're treating them with?

    CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2009 2009

  • "I expect you'll think it smells sort o 'doctorish," she said, apologetically.

    Mrs. Red Pepper 1912

  • The doctors had been incredibly fatalistic about it, telling my family in their doctorish way, "She'll die, she won't survive the operation!"

    www.mentallyinteresting.org.uk | Pole to Polar: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive 2009

  • He doesn’t wear doctorish clothes, just his jeans and a khaki shirt with the sleeves rolled up, with some T-shirt on underneath.

    The Nature of Jade Deb Caletti 2007

  • “I’ll tell you what they do,” said Peter; “they strap the broken man down so that he can’t resist or interfere with their doctorish designs, and then someone holds his head, and someone holds his leg — the broken one, and pulls it till the bones fit in — with a crunch, mind you!

    The Railway Children Edith 2003

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