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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Maidish
Synonyms for "maidish"
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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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