a. [f. as prec. + -ISH.] a. Of persons: Resembling Quakers in character or manners. b. Of things: Characteristic of, appropriate to, Quakers.
1787. M. Cutler, in Life, Jrnls. & Corr. (1888), I. 210. We were very Quakerish, every man attending close to the business of eating, without uttering scarcely a word.
1822. Lamb, Lett., to Bernard Barton, xii. 113. Your plain Quakerish beauty has captivated me.
1847. C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, xxiv. I am your plain, Quakerish governess.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., I. 354. A motherly figure of quakerish neatness.
Hence Quakerishly adv.
1869. Charleston Daily News, 25 May, 1/5. The prim edges of a square-cut cap, which is old maidishly stiff, painfully white, and Quakerishly ugly.
1886. G. Allen, Maimie’s Sake, xxxiii. So quaintly and quakerishly pretty.
