“maidenish”的英英意思

单词	maidenish
释义	maidenish, a.|ˈmeɪd(ə)nɪʃ| [f. maiden n. + -ish.] Resembling a maiden, characteristic of a maiden. Used in depreciatory sense. 1749Fielding Tom Jones vi. vii, ‘Come, come’, says Western, ‘none of your maidenish airs’.1815Zeluca I. 172 Do not let one word of this rhodomontade come within ken of your maidenish aunts.1825New Monthly Mag. XV. 299 A pretty affectation of maidenish coyness. Comb.1789A. Seward Lett. (1811) II. 250 But, Lord! what a pale, maidenish-looking animal for a voluptuary!

　

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