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View synonyms for old-maidish

old-maidish

[ ohld-mey-dish ]

adjective

  1. characteristic of or resembling an old maid.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of old-maidish1

First recorded in 1750–60
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Example Sentences

People had laughed at him for being so old-maidish, as they put it.

But Frieda was looking the other way, and Margaret travelled on to town feeling solitary and old-maidish.

Spiteful people said, that Lily was beginning to look old-maidish, but I never saw it in her calm face.

A freedom, both from girlish frivolities, and old-maidish crabbedness and prudery.

Alma, so said Exeter people, was becoming unsociable and old maidish.

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