Anile
of or like a foolish, doddering old woman.
Historical Examples
He is evidently childish, and breaks now and then into an anile laugh at the thought, no doubt, of some dead old pot-house jest.
Nancy Rhoda Broughton
Locke was now far too eminent a man to be troubled by so anile a demonstration of folly.
Locke Thomas Fowler
Our babbling, anile friend, in the very looseness of her prating has let out the truth.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, October 2, 1841 Various
adjective
of or like a feeble old woman
anile an·ile (ān’īl’, ā’nīl’)
adj.
Of or like an old woman.
Senile.
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