"maiden-auntish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "maiden aunt + -ish",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more maiden-auntish",
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        "comparative"
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      "form": "most maiden-auntish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "maiden-auntishness"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962, Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook, New York: Bantam, published 1979, page 154",
          "text": "[…] the literary world […] is a world so prissy, maiden-auntish; so class-bound;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Sarah Waters, chapter 9, in The Little Stranger, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, page 293",
          "text": "The smell was of camphor, maiden-auntish:",
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        }
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        "Having stereotypical characteristics of an elderly unmarried aunt; straight-laced, old-fashioned, etc."
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        [
          "straight-laced",
          "straight-laced"
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        [
          "old-fashioned",
          "old-fashioned"
        ]
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  "word": "maiden-auntish"
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    {
      "word": "maiden-auntishness"
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  "etymology_text": "maiden aunt + -ish",
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    {
      "form": "more maiden-auntish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most maiden-auntish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962, Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook, New York: Bantam, published 1979, page 154",
          "text": "[…] the literary world […] is a world so prissy, maiden-auntish; so class-bound;",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Sarah Waters, chapter 9, in The Little Stranger, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, page 293",
          "text": "The smell was of camphor, maiden-auntish:",
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        }
      ],
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        "Having stereotypical characteristics of an elderly unmarried aunt; straight-laced, old-fashioned, etc."
      ],
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          "straight-laced",
          "straight-laced"
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          "old-fashioned",
          "old-fashioned"
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  "word": "maiden-auntish"
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