maidish
- a word derived from maid.
Example Sentences
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A spinster, there is nothing old maidish about her comfortable appearance; only her keen blue eyes belie her look of somewhat stolid placidity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Had she known it, she too was looking her best tonight—in an old- maidish fashion, be it understood.
From The Westcotes by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
She lost all consciousness that he was a strange man plunged down suddenly in the midst of her old maidish existence—and a strange man, too, who had once behaved in a most outrageous fashion.
From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Ball, Alec
Fourthly, Madame Aubrey, a widow, a sort of second cousin, old maidish, talky— Man.
From The Romance of a Poor Young Man A Drama Adapted from the French of Octave Feuillet by Edwards, Pierrepont
"I suppose I'm getting old maidish," she thought.
From Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
