maidlike

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adjective

maidenly

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivemaidlike (comparative more maidlike, superlative most maidlike)

comparative more maidlike · superlative most maidlike

  1. archaicpoeticmaidenly
  2. Resembling or characteristic of a maid (female domestic servant).

    Somehow his maidlike service to her collapsed what she was building up, psychologically.

    1978, Marc Edmund Jones, Man, magic, and fantasy: the domestication of imagination

Origin

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APA

maidlike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/maidlike

MLA

“maidlike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/maidlike. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “maidlike,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/maidlike.

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