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单词 maidish
释义

maidish

English

Etymology

maid + -ish

Adjective

maidish (comparative more maidish, superlative most maidish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a maid; effeminate.
    • 1984, Shirley Staples, Male-female comedy teams in American vaudeville, 1865-1932
      He played a maidish man, who looked after the house while his suffragette wife supported the family. Looking through an old chest he finds a bottle of something called "Scotch" and gets drunk and sings "Poor Downtrodden Man."
  2. Old-maidish.
    • 2013, Alexander Waugh, The House of Wittgenstein: A Family At War (page 149)
      In December 1919 she was forty-five years old and more aware than ever that her destiny was to be a maidish one: to look after her ageing mother (by whom she was permanently irritated), to offer emotional succour to her younger siblings []

Anagrams

  • Hamidis, Hasidim
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