old-womanish
adjEtymology
From old woman + -ish.
Definitions
Having the negative traits of a stereotypical elderly woman
Having the negative traits of a stereotypical elderly woman: peevish, superstitious, prim and proper, etc.
- He did not say that he thought her position stiff, and her dress too old for her, though he had thought it, and smiled at the prim, old-womanish figure, sitting so erect in the high-backed chair.
- If we would exercise ourselves unto godliness, we must refuse profane and old-womanish tales. Much of the teaching and preaching in Christianity today falls in the category of old-womanish tales.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA