"maidish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From maid + -ish.",
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          "text": "He played a maidish man, who looked after the house while his suffragette wife supported the family. Looking through an old chest he finds a bottle of something called \"Scotch\" and gets drunk and sings \"Poor Downtrodden Man.\"",
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        "Resembling or characteristic of a maid; effeminate."
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          "text": "In December 1919 she was forty-five years old and more aware than ever that her destiny was to be a maidish one: to look after her ageing mother (by whom she was permanently irritated), to offer emotional succour to her younger siblings […]",
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