| 单词 | old-maidish |
| 释义 | old-maidish (once / 74336 pages) adj WORD FAMILY old-maidish USAGE EXAMPLESThey were the rampart, behind which the half-dozen querulous, rather old-maidish specialists measured skulls, gathered fragments of pottery, took rubbings of inscriptions, and collected folk-lore. Edwards, Albert, Comrade Yetta(2012) Indeed, she was as prim and “old-maidish” as any spinster lady possibly could be. Hill, Grace Brooks, The Corner House Girls—How they mov...(2012) Was I, in fact, becoming fanciful and old-maidish—ready to find error in shadows, and crimes in everything? Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia), Wives and Widows; or The Broken Lif...(2011) adj primly fastidious Syn old-womanish fastidious giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness |
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