See spinsterish on Wiktionary
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{ "derived": [ { "word": "spinsterishness" } ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "spinster", "3": "ish" }, "expansion": "spinster + -ish", "name": "suffix" } ], "etymology_text": "From spinster + -ish.", "forms": [ { "form": "more spinsterish", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most spinsterish", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "spinsterish (comparative more spinsterish, superlative most spinsterish)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English 3-syllable words", "English adjectives", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English terms suffixed with -ish", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1976 December 25, Robert Chesley, “New York's \"Nightingale\" Does No Justice to Williams' Play”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 16:", "text": "Alma Winemiller, the repressed minister's daughter in a small southern town, is a spinsterish and prudish woman, losing her youth, who becomes aware of her strongly sensual nature and in desperation has the courage to act on her sexual impulses.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Resembling or characteristic of a spinster." ], "links": [ [ "spinster", "spinster" ] ] } ], "word": "spinsterish" }
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