noun. A dull, pedantic speaker or writer.

noun. A dull, boring or pedantic speaker or writer

"In the last pages of the book, his literary executor, commenting on the journal that has been the vehicle for the narrative, reviews events from the perspective of an unperceptive dryasdust and fashions a rational explanation of the less believable aspects of the tale."

Jonathan Oldbuck  Miniver Cheevy  Pre-Raphaelite  academic  antiquarian