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landladyish

landladyish adjective: suggesting or befitting a landlady.

Adjective

landladyish (comparative more landladyish, superlative most landladyish)

  1. (rare) Suggesting or befitting a landlady.
    • […] as if someone had suddenly switched on a searchlight which filled every corner of the odd landladyish room with its aspidistra and baize cloth and the smoke and heat of the game.1939, Nicholas Monsarrat, This Is the Schoolroom, page 12

Forms of landladyish

comparativemore landladyish
superlativemost landladyish

Origin of landladyish

From landlady + -ish.

Questions about landladyish

What does landladyish mean?
Landladyish means suggesting or befitting a landlady.
What part of speech is landladyish?
Landladyish is an adjective.

Words near landladyish in the dictionary

  1. Landkey
  2. landladies
  3. landlady
  4. landlady's wig
  5. landladyhood
  6. landladyish
  7. landladyship
  8. landleaper
  9. landleapers
  10. Landler
  11. landless

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