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Ladyish vs Laddish - What's the difference?

ladyish | laddish |

As adjectives the difference between ladyish and laddish

is that ladyish is characteristic of a lady while laddish is (british) like a stereotypical jack the lad: boorish, reckless, inclined to binge drinking, etc.

ladyish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Characteristic of a lady
  • *{{quote-book, year=1884, author=Joseph Conrad, title=Tales Of Hearsay, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Do you think it was a ladyish , afternoon call, another-cup-of-tea-please apparition that visits your Professor Cranks and that journalist chap you are always talking about? }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1893, author=Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore, title=A Comedy of Masks, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=She is an innocent young thing, after all--younger than I ever was--for all her fine dresses and her grand ladyish way. }}

    laddish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (British) Like a stereotypical jack the lad: boorish, reckless, inclined to binge drinking, etc.
  • *2003 , Linda McDowell, Redundant Masculinities?: Employment Change and White Working Class Youth
  • *:...versions of a laddish or protest heterosexual masculinity...
  • *2006 , Carolyn Jackson, Lads and Ladettes in School: Gender and a Fear of Failure
  • *:This underachievement is linked to a laddish culture...