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dameish

dameish adjective: characteristic of a dame.

Adjective

dameish (comparative more dameish, superlative most dameish)

  1. (rare) Characteristic of a dame.
    • "[…] I suppose tomorrow we must call on that very dameish woman, Mrs Warburton, with Miss Talbot?"1854, Harriet Parr, Maude Talbot, by Holme Lee, volume 1, page 188
    • It would have been much more sensible and old-dameish to have kept you, but I have whims as well as other people; […]1880, Julie P. Smith, The Married Belle, Or Our Red Cottage at Merry Bank

Forms of dameish

comparativemore dameish
superlativemost dameish

Origin of dameish

From dame + -ish.

Questions about dameish

What does dameish mean?
Dameish means characteristic of a dame.
What part of speech is dameish?
Dameish is an adjective.

Words near dameish in the dictionary

  1. dame's rockets
  2. dame's violet
  3. damed
  4. damehood
  5. damehoods
  6. dameish
  7. damel
  8. Dameli
  9. Damelio
  10. Damelios
  11. damelopre

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