dameish

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From dame +‎ -ish.

Adjective[edit]

dameish (comparative more dameish, superlative most dameish)

  1. (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.
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