dryasdust adjective 1noun 1forms 1 adjective1 •Boring and pedantic in speech or writing.[…] Casaubon, the dryasdust scholar in Middlemarch, is said to woo his bride with a “frigid rhetoric . . . as sincere as the bark of a dog, or the cawing of an amorous rook.” — 2006 noun1 •A dull, boring or pedantic speaker or writer.[…] how can Dryasdust interpret such things, the dark chaotic dullard, who knows the meaning of nothing cosmic or noble, nor ever will know? — 1858 formsdryasdusts
