dameish
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dameish (comparative more dameish, superlative most dameish)
- (rare) Characteristic of a dame.
- 1854, Harriet Parr, Maude Talbot, by Holme Lee, volume 1, page 188:
- " […] I suppose tomorrow we must call on that very dameish woman, Mrs Warburton, with Miss Talbot?"
- 1880, Julie P. Smith, The Married Belle, Or Our Red Cottage at Merry Bank:
- It would have been much more sensible and old-dameish to have kept you, but I have whims as well as other people; […]
- 2011, Diane Miller, Carolyn Hennesy, The Secret Life of Damian Spinelli:
- The voice on the other end was scared all right, but definitely dameish and definitely flirty.