Madonnaish

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English

Etymology

From Madonna +‎ -ish.

Adjective

Madonnaish (comparative more Madonnaish, superlative most Madonnaish)

Like a Madonna.
- 1891 October 24, The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama, number 3339, London: John C. Francis, , page 547, column 1:
  She is too Madonnaish in one way, too languishing and sentimental in another: […]
- 1931, John Galsworthy, Maid in Waiting, London: William Heinemann Ltd., page 348:
  “Raise the hands, Miss Cherrell. No! Too Madonnaish. We must think of the devil in the hair. The eyes to me, full.”
- 1994, Robert Wright, The Moral Animal, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 141:
  The more Madonnaish the women, the more daddish and less caddish the men, and thus the more Madonnaish the women, and so on.

References

James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Madonna”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 19, column 1.

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