Maidish
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Maidish is an adjective meaning Resembling or characteristic of a maid; effeminate.
Meaning
Resembling or characteristic of a maid; effeminate.
More Meanings
- Old-maidish.
Example Sentences
He played a maidish man, who looked after the house while his suffragette wife supported the family. Looking through an old chest he finds a bottle of something called "Scotch" and gets drunk and sings "Poor Downtrodden Man."
In December 1919 she was forty-five years old and more aware than ever that her destiny was to be a maidish one: to look after her ageing mother (by whom she was permanently irritated), to offer emotional succour to her younger siblings […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include maidlike, womanlike, womanish, maidenish, maidly, maidenlike.
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