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Sherlock Holmes|ˈʃɜːlɒk həʊmz|
[See Holmesian a. and n.]
A person resembling Sherlock Holmes; = Sherlock n.
1896E. Turner Little Larrikin x. 108 It took her nearly five minutes to wonder sufficiently at him..and call him a Sherlock Holmes. 1914T. A. Baggs Back from Front xxiv. 118 It needed no Sherlock Holmes to discover where English cavalry had bivouacked for the night. 1957A. MacNab Bulls of Iberia xvi. 237 The press critics kept very quiet about it, and one need not be a Sherlock Holmes to guess why. 1981Times 22 Apr. 6/5 The doctor becomes a medical Sherlock Holmes.
So Sherlock Holmes v. trans., to make deductions about, to assess, to deduce (cf. Sherlock v.); Sherlock ˈHolmesian a. = Sherlockian a.; Sherlock ˈHolmesing vbl. n. = Sherlocking vbl. n.
1922Joyce Ulysses 620 He had been meantime taking stock of the individual in front of him and Sherlock⁓holmesing him up. 1929C. I. Lewis Mind & World-Order ix. 287 All the Sherlock Holmesing in the world would not help him a bit because he would not be able to recognize evidence when he found it. 1954E. Eager Half Magic iii. 35 ‘She just as good as said so,’ said Jane, ‘and I Sherlock Holmesed the rest.’ 1958Observer 16 Mar. 14/3 The stern Sherlock Holmesian K.C. 1958A. Wilson Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot i. 89 All this woman's intuition is just a lot of Sherlock Holmesing. 1972Sci. Amer. Mar. 106/3 He proceeded indeed by a kind of Sherlock Holmesian logic, which presumes that in eliminating the impossible and the more implausible it has arrived at the true. |