Maidish
"Maidish" in a Sentence (2 examples)
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."
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 […]