house-keeperish

Updated: July 10, 2025

You see, Nan was always wanted to do things, or fetch things, or send for things. 'She's a house-keeperish kind of young party, Tom used to say of her, when he had coolly sent her to look out his shooting-boots.

William Black - The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols