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dameish

adj

Etymology

From dame + -ish.

  1. derived from domus
  2. derived from domina
  3. derived from dame
  4. inherited from dame
  5. formed as dameish — “dame + -ish”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of a dame.

    • "[…] I suppose tomorrow we must call on that very dameish woman, Mrs Warburton, with Miss Talbot?"
    • It would have been much more sensible and old-dameish to have kept you, but I have whims as well as other people; […]
    • The voice on the other end was scared all right, but definitely dameish and definitely flirty.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA