old woman

old woman

n

1. an informal term for mother¹, wife [1]

2. a timid, fussy, or cautious person

old-womanish  adj

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	old woman - a woman who is old                   beldam, beldame - a woman of advanced age granny - an old woman beldam, beldame, crone, hag, witch - an ugly evil-looking old woman mother - a term of address for an elderly woman golden ager, old person, oldster, senior citizen - an elderly person adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"
	2.	old woman - herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant Artemisia stelleriana, beach wormwood, dusty miller genus Artemisia - usually aromatic shrubs or herbs of north temperate regions and South Africa and western South America: wormwood; sagebrush; mugwort; tarragon wormwood - any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium

---

old woman

noun senior citizen, old lady, pensioner (slang), retired person, old age pensioner, elder, coffin-dodger (slang), elderly person, O.A.P. (Brit.) a contemptible thief who mugged an old woman