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.