landladyish

English

Etymology

From landlady +‎ -ish.

Adjective

landladyish (comparative more landladyish, superlative most landladyish)

  1. (rare) Suggesting or befitting a landlady.
    • 1939, Nicholas Monsarrat, This Is the Schoolroom, page 12:
      […] as if someone had suddenly switched on a searchlight which filled every corner of the odd landladyish room with its aspidistra and baize cloth and the smoke and heat of the game.
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