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Definition of Old-womanish
1. Adjective. Primly fastidious.
Medical Definition of Old-womanish
1. Like an old woman; anile. Old-wom"anishness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old-womanish
Literary usage of Old-womanish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How I Found Livingstone: Travels and Adventures and Discoveries in Central by Henry Morton Stanley (1891)
"Not by me, however, for I very seldom quarrel with him, because he has old-womanish
ways with him, and in his old-womanish ways is disposed to do the best ..."
2. Young Englishwoman: A Volume of Pure Literature, New Fashions, and Pretty (1867)
"What do you mean by "old womanish ways ?" Plainly it is not intended for a ...
Here, then, is a trait which ie, in reality, old- womanish, and the only one ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1865)
"... with that little old-womanish hobble which Mrs. Woodburn executed with such
precision, perfectly satisfied with her success, and indulging herself in ..."
4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1852)
"We frequently hear the expression made in reference to some good-natured, inactive,
old-womanish man, " 0, he's too honest to get along. ..."
5. The Columbian Magazine edited by John Inman, Robert A. West, Stephen M. Chester, Darius Mead (1847)
"... so ',> to turn back and take the other path, sober and old womanish, if somebody
they could ¡5 The next moment he was following her with name were here. ..."
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