maidish

But, no girls love this kind of boys, girls will only feel this kind of guy is too childish, too old-maidish, not romantic at all.

，没有任爱这样的男，她们觉得这样的男太幼稚，太古板，没有情趣。

Howells was, despite his faintly old-maidish quality, the most professional of writers, and the most generously sympathetic of critics.

所有这些，使豪威尔斯成为最精通本行的作家和宽厚的批评家，有点婆婆妈妈。