The Collaborative International Dictionary
old-maidish
old-maidish \old`-maid"ish\, a. Like an old maid; prim; precise; particular; overly fastidious.
Syn: fussy, old-womanish.
Wiktionary
old-maidish
a. Like an old maid; prim; precise; particular.
WordNet
old-maidish
adj. primly fastidious [syn: old-womanish]
Usage examples of "old-maidish".
If people could rid themselves of the wickedness they currently had to repress, if science (which was advancing in leaps and bounds and causing much dismay) could alleviate the burden created by adhering to the old-maidish Victorian definition of morality, the continued march of civilization might be assured.
A great roar of engines, an old-maidish waggle of the wings and it was gone, lost in a rain cloud and heading for Singapore over a thousand miles away.