dryasdust

noun

1. 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?”

adj

1. (not-comparable)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.””