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maidish

maidish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a maid; effeminate.

Adjective

maidish (comparative more maidish, superlative most maidish)

  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

Forms of maidish

comparativemore maidish
superlativemost maidish

Origin of maidish

From maid + -ish.

Questions about maidish

What does maidish mean?
Maidish means resembling or characteristic of a maid; effeminate.
What part of speech is maidish?
Maidish is an adjective.

Words near maidish in the dictionary

  1. maidhood
  2. maidie
  3. maidies
  4. maiding
  5. maidings
  6. maidish
  7. maidism
  8. maidkin
  9. maidkins
  10. maidless
  11. maidlessness

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