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maidish en · ADJ

Etymology

From maid + -ish.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a maid; effeminate.
   • 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." 1984, Shirley Staples, Male-female comedy teams in American vaudeville, 1865-1932:
2. Old-maidish.
   • 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 […] 2013, Alexander Waugh, The House of Wittgenstein: A Family At War, page 149:

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