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old-maidish

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old maid
n.
1. Offensive A woman who has remained single beyond the conventional age for marrying.
2. Informal A person regarded as being primly fastidious.
3. Games
a. A card game in which the player who holds a designated card at the end is the loser.
b. The loser of this game.
4. Chiefly Southern U.S. See zinnia.
old-maidish (ldmdsh) adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.old-maidish - primly fastidious
old-womanish
fastidious - giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"
Translations
old-maidish [ˈəʊldˈmeɪdɪʃ] ADJ (= spinsterish) → de solterona; (= fussy) → remilgado


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A gentle, old-maidish person and a sweet young girl of seventeen sat right in front of us that night at the Mannheim opera.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
She was so small and frail, there was something so pathetic in her old-maidish air, that Philip was touched.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
But Frieda was looking the other way, and Margaret travelled on to town feeling solitary and old-maidish.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
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