Adjective: maidish
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more maidish |
| Superlative | most maidish |
Sample Sentences
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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." [1984, Shirley Staples, Male-female comedy teams in American vaudeville, 1865-1932:]
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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 […] [2013, Alexander Waugh, The House of Wittgenstein: A Family At War, page 149:]
Adjectives inflected like maidish
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From maid + -ish.