maidish

comparative more maidish · superlative most maidish

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."

   1984, Shirley Staples, Male-female comedy teams in American vaudeville, 1865-1932

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 […]

   2013, Alexander Waugh, The House of Wittgenstein: A Family At War, page 149