maiden
noun
a girl or young unmarried woman; maid.
maidenish
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a word derived from
maiden.
Example Sentences
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I pray thee do not breathe these little maidenish confidences, for it might make hard feeling between me and some of my gentlemen friends I have had to get checked at numerous places of refreshment.
From The Sorrows of a Show Girl by Kenneth McGaffey
"Come, come," says Western, "none of your maidenish airs; I know all; I assure you sister hath told me all."
From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
Dr. James's preface to this book, which will be noticed in its proper place, in another work, is the veriest piece of old maidenish particularity that ever was exhibited!
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
I thought thou hadst been a lad of higher mettle than to give way to a parcel of maidenish tricks.——I tell thee 'tis all flimflam.
From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
The white, maidenish and silk-haired fairness of Sidwell, and Peak's irresistible passion for the type of beauty suggested, is revealed to us with all Gissing's wonderful skill in shadowing forth feminine types of lovelihood.
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by George Gissing
