spinsterish
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]spinsterish (comparative more spinsterish, superlative most spinsterish)
- Resembling or characteristic of a spinster.
- 1976 December 25, Robert Chesley, “New York's "Nightingale" Does No Justice to Williams' Play”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 16:
- Alma Winemiller, the repressed minister's daughter in a small southern town, is a spinsterish and prudish woman, losing her youth, who becomes aware of her strongly sensual nature and in desperation has the courage to act on her sexual impulses.