auntish

Your lean and hungry ones; your envious detractors; your thin maiden-auntish prig republican philosophers: -- all very wisely sheer off.

The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

They had all the extraordinary thoughtful kindness and chivalry which marks every American towards women, but they weren't a bit auntish or grandmammaish.

Elizabeth Visits America Elinor Glyn 1903

And that there was a crowd of foolish prigs and pedants in Rome to take note of these so trivial things, and to be more irked by them than by all the realities of his power: -- a lean hungry Cassius; an envious brusque detractor Casca; a Brutus with a penchant for being considered a philosopher, after a rather maiden-auntish sort of conception of the part, -- and for being considered a true descendant of his well-known ancestor: a cold soul much fired with the _ignis fatuus_ of Republican slave-scourging province-fleecing freedom.

The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908