maidlike

English

Etymology

maid +‎ -like

Adjective

maidlike (comparative more maidlike, superlative most maidlike)

  1. (archaic, poetic) maidenly
  2. Resembling or characteristic of a maid (female domestic servant).
    • 1978, Marc Edmund Jones, Man, magic, and fantasy: the domestication of imagination
      Somehow his maidlike service to her collapsed what she was building up, psychologically.
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