landladyish

English

Etymology

landlady +‎ -ish

Adjective

landladyish (comparative more landladyish, superlative most landladyish)

1. (rare) Suggesting or befitting a landlady.
   • 1939, Nicholas Monsarrat, This Is the Schoolroom, page 12:

     […] as if someone had suddenly switched on a searchlight which filled every corner of the odd landladyish room with its aspidistra and baize cloth and the smoke and heat of the game.