Madonnaish
English
Etymology
From Madonna + -ish.
Adjective
Madonnaish (comparative more Madonnaish, superlative most Madonnaish)
- Like a Madonna.
- 1891 October 24, The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama, number 3339, London: […] John C. Francis, […] , page 547, column 1:
- She is too Madonnaish in one way, too languishing and sentimental in another: […]
- 1931, John Galsworthy, Maid in Waiting, London: William Heinemann Ltd., page 348:
- “Raise the hands, Miss Cherrell. No! Too Madonnaish. We must think of the devil in the hair. The eyes to me, full.”
- 1994, Robert Wright, The Moral Animal, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 141:
- The more Madonnaish the women, the more daddish and less caddish the men, and thus the more Madonnaish the women, and so on.
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References
- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Madonna”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 19, column 1.