old-womanish
11old-maidish — old maid ish, a. Like an old maid; prim; precise; particular; overly fastidious. Syn: fussy, old womanish. [1913 Webster] …
12old woman — n BrE old fashioned informal 1.) sb s old woman someone s wife or mother 2.) a man who pays too much attention to small, unimportant details >old womanish adj …
13old — adj. (older, oldest) (cf. ELDER, ELDEST). 1 a advanced in age; far on in the natural period of existence. b not young or near its beginning. 2 made long ago. 3 long in use. 4 worn or dilapidated or shabby from the passage of time. 5 having the… …
14Old — adj. (older, oldest) (cf. ELDER, ELDEST). 1 a advanced in age; far on in the natural period of existence. b not young or near its beginning. 2 made long ago. 3 long in use. 4 worn or dilapidated or shabby from the passage of time. 5 having the… …
15womanish — Synonyms and related words: breakable, brittle, cheap jack, chicken, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, distaff, effeminate, female, feminine, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, gentlewomanlike, gimcrack, gimcracky, girlish,… …
16old-maidish — adjective primly fastidious • Syn: ↑old womanish • Similar to: ↑fastidious * * * /ohld may dish/, adj. characteristic of or resembling an old maid. [1750 60] * * * old maidˈish adjective Like the conventional old maid, prim …
17old maidish — adj. old womanish, similar to an old maid; primly hard to please …
18old woman — noun 1》 an elderly woman. 2》 (one s old woman) informal one s mother, wife, or female partner. 3》 derogatory a fussy or timid person. Derivatives old womanish adjective …
19old woman — noun BrE slang 1 the old woman an offensive expression meaning someone s wife or mother 2 (C) a man who pays too much attention to unimportant details old womanish adjective …
20female — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) The female sex Nouns 1. female, womankind, womanhood, femininity, muliebrity; fair sex, weaker sex; feminist, suffragist (see choice); women s liberation or movement, feminism, NOW; mommy track. See… …
