maidish

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a maid; effeminate.
    — 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.
    — 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 […]

词形变化

more maidish comparative most maidish superlative

词源

From maid + -ish.
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