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milkmaidy

milkmaidy adjective: resembling or characteristic of a milkmaid.

Adjective

milkmaidy (comparative more milkmaidy, superlative most milkmaidy)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a milkmaid.
    • Fullness of skirt aids in giving a better effect than narrowness, but even with ful­ness in excess, there is still a certain unfinished, milkmaidy look, wanting both in elegance and aplomb.1890 January 17, “A Happy Medium”, in The Brainerd Dispatch, volume 9, number 8, Brainerd, Minn.: Ingersoll & Wieland, page [3], column 1
    • We are going to have an open-air vaudeville and show off all those talents which make us such a loss to the professional stage, and the dance in the coach house, which boasts a polished floor, if you ever heard of such a luxury, will be on the nickel-a-dance order and as milkmaidy and...1914 July 24, Dolly, “A Debutante’s Letter”, in The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., published 26 July 1914, page 12

Examples of milkmaidy in a sentence

  • No!” Maurice Bannerman shouted, nearly apoplectic, when some one suggested it—waitresses looking rather milkmaidy; and, above all, quiet.1935, Howard Spring, Rachel Rosing, Stretford: Memories, published 2000, →ISBN, page 24:
  • Prettily floral, milkmaidy fabrics and papers for the home.1976, Shirley Conran, Superwoman Yearbook: A Home Note Book, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, →ISBN, page 25, column 1:
  • Terri was so lovely in a kind of fresh and clean, milkmaidy way.1995, Annette Meyers, chapter 20, in These Bones Were Made for Dancin’: A Smith and Wetzon Mystery, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN, page...
  • Or sweetly milkmaidy in that flowery dress that’s about as sexy as Enid Blyton?1996, Andrea Young, Wicked in Silk, London: Scarlet, →ISBN, page 214:

Forms of milkmaidy

comparativemore milkmaidy
superlativemost milkmaidy

Origin of milkmaidy

From milkmaid + -y.

Questions about milkmaidy

What does milkmaidy mean?
Milkmaidy means resembling or characteristic of a milkmaid.
How do you use milkmaidy in a sentence?
No!” Maurice Bannerman shouted, nearly apoplectic, when some one suggested it—waitresses looking rather milkmaidy; and, above all, quiet.
What part of speech is milkmaidy?
Milkmaidy is an adjective.

Words near milkmaidy in the dictionary

  1. milkmaid's yoke
  2. milkmaid's yokes
  3. milkmaiden
  4. milkmaidens
  5. milkmaids
  6. milkmaidy
  7. milkman
  8. milkmen
  9. milkness
  10. milko
  11. milkoholic

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