Sherlock Holmesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sherlock Holmesque
form: most Sherlock Holmesque
Etymology: From Sherlock Holmes + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: […] the interpreter, with Sherlock-Holmesque astuteness, paired this fact with that of the Frenchmen’s presence in the town […]
ref: 1903, Brick, page 238:
text: Half the population of the Silver Belt will turn Sherlock Holmesque. There are already fourteen different theories as to how the villains bored the hole in the wall, and there are dozens on the wing.
ref: 1910 September 8, “Concentrates”, in The Cobalt Daily Nugget, volume II, number 191, Cobalt, Ont., page one, column 3:
text: Frantz held the package at arm’s length and grew Sherlock Holmesque. Policeman gets a clue—asks for reasons—same not satisfactory—Frantz in cell in Center Avenue Station—clock on sergeant’s desk as evidence.
ref: 1912 October 14, “Policeman With Keen Ears Deduces an Alarm Clock Is Not Proper Companion”, in The Gazette Times, Pittsburgh, Pa., page 1:
text: A la Sherlock Holmesque, Authier traced the noise to a paper sack which a youth nearby was carrying under his arm.
ref: 1923 August 8, “Alarm Clocks in Bag Let Go; Youth Nabbed”, in The Detroit Free Press, volume 88, number 315, Detroit, Mich., page 7:
text: “Sure as the Lord made tumbleweeds in Kansas, we — your Sherlock Holmesque readers — are closing in on the elusive Joe Don Looney,” the Morrisseys wrote.
ref: 1976 October 29, Dave Kindred, “The continuing Looney saga: Has our hero found peace?”, in The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ken., page C 1, column 2:
text: He plays Brown, a federal agent who disguises himself as a bumbling Sherlock Holmesque detective.
ref: 1988 April 8, Lisa McKinnon, “In search of theater”, in Lompoc Record, volume 114, number 307, page T1:
text: > Sherlock Holmesque films are pretty cool.
ref: 2000 April 28, betnoir, quoting Excession, “[OFF] A new police sitcom..”, in alt.callahans (Usenet):
text: But that little something happened to put me on the road leading to culinary achievements, and remained imbedded in my mind forever as a Sherlock Holmesque “Case of the Stubborn Duck”.
ref: 2003, Frank Stiffel, “When-it-Rains-it-Purrs, Inc.”, in The House of Margie: The Oxymoron Factor 4: A Post-Holocaust Memoir, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 253:
text: Am I supposed to call you a GENIUS because of your Sherlock Holmesque revelation ?
ref: 2007 October 7, CricketLeague, “Hair made the most appaling^([sic]) decision in my entire life - Sir John Anderson”, in rec.sport.cricke (Usenet):
text: It's sort of a Sherlock Holmesque thing, to try and pin down where a person is from based on their idioms and figures of speech.
ref: 2008 December 19, Geoff Miller, “Just One Word (Not Even!)”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
text: Here, a compendium of well-written Sherlock Holmesque stories, set at our bustling Metro where milieu and characters extol authenticity, is a fine example of where we should commence in this rarely trod sub-genre of fiction.
ref: 2017, Maria L.M. Fres-Felix, quoting Joselito D. Delos Reyes, Crimetime: Inspector SJ Tuason Case Files, Anvil Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
Synonyms: Holmesish
Sherlock Holmesish
Sherlock Holmesy
Sherlockish
Sherlocky