"old-womanish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From old woman + -ish.",
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      "form": "more old-womanish",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1900, Mary Jane Holmes, Millbank; or Roger Irving's Ward, page 85:",
          "text": "He did not say that he thought her position stiff, and her dress too old for her, though he had thought it, and smiled at the prim, old-womanish figure, sitting so erect in the high-backed chair.",
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        {
          "ref": "2001, Witness Lee, Life-Study of 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, page 73:",
          "text": "If we would exercise ourselves unto godliness, we must refuse profane and old-womanish tales. Much of the teaching and preaching in Christianity today falls in the category of old-womanish tales.",
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        "Having the negative traits of a stereotypical elderly woman: peevish, superstitious, prim and proper, etc."
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          "elderly",
          "elderly"
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          "woman",
          "woman"
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          "peevish",
          "peevish"
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          "superstitious",
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          "prim and proper",
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  "etymology_text": "From old woman + -ish.",
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          "ref": "1900, Mary Jane Holmes, Millbank; or Roger Irving's Ward, page 85:",
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          "ref": "2001, Witness Lee, Life-Study of 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, page 73:",
          "text": "If we would exercise ourselves unto godliness, we must refuse profane and old-womanish tales. Much of the teaching and preaching in Christianity today falls in the category of old-womanish tales.",
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        "Having the negative traits of a stereotypical elderly woman: peevish, superstitious, prim and proper, etc."
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