old maid
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old maid
n.
1. Offensive Used as a disparaging term for a woman who is no longer young and has not married.
2. Informal A person regarded as being primly fastidious.
3. Games
a. A card game in which players match cards into pairs using a deck that has an odd number of cards. The player who holds the unmatched card at the end loses.
b. The loser of this game.
old′-maid′ish (-mā′dĭsh) adj.
old maid
n
1. a woman regarded as unlikely ever to marry; spinster
2. informal a prim, fastidious, or excessively cautious person
3. (Card Games) a card game using a pack from which one card has been removed, in which players try to avoid holding the unpaired card at the end of the game
ˌold-ˈmaidish adj
old′ maid′
n.
1. Usually Disparaging. an elderly or confirmed spinster.
2. a fussy, timid, prudish person.
3. a simple card game, played with a deck having one card removed, in which players match pairs, the loser being the holder of the odd card, usu. a queen.
[1520–30]
old′-maid′ish, adj.
usage: Definition 1 is usually used with disparaging intent.
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| Noun | 1. |  old maid - an elderly unmarried woman unmarried woman - a woman who is not married |
| 2. |  old maid - any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower headsflower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms genus Zinnia - genus of annual or perennial plants of tropical America having solitary heads of brightly colored flowers white zinnia, Zinnia acerosa - subshrub with slender woolly stems and long narrow leaves and flower heads with white rays; southern United States and northern Mexico little golden zinnia, Zinnia grandiflora - subshrub having short leafy stems and numerous small flower heads with nearly round yellow-orange rays; Arizona south to Mexico and east to Kansas | |
| 3. |  old maid - commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowersCape periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus, cayenne jasmine, Madagascar periwinkle, red periwinkle, rose periwinkle, Vinca rosea, periwinkle Catharanthus, genus Catharanthus - small genus of erect annual or perennial herbs native to Madagascar; widely naturalized in the tropics; formerly included in genus Vinca herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests | |
| 4. | old maid - the loser in a game of old maid | |
| 5. | old maid - a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid') |
old maid
nounInformal. A person who is too much concerned with being proper, modest, or righteous:
Translations
عانِس، فاتَها وقت الزَّواج
stará panna
pebermø
vanhapiika
vénkisasszony
piparmey
evde kalmış kız
old maid
n (pej) → vecchia zitellaold
(əuld) adjective1. advanced in age. an old man; He is too old to live alone.
2. having a certain age. He is thirty years old.
3. having existed for a long time. an old building; Those trees are very old.
4. no longer useful. She threw away the old shoes.
5. belonging to times long ago. old civilizations like that of Greece.
old age the later part of a person's life. He wrote most of his poems in his old age.
old boy/girl a former pupil (of a school). The new prime minister is an old boy of our school.
ˌold-ˈfashioned adjective in a style common some time ago. old-fashioned clothes; Her hairstyle is very old-fashioned.
old hand a person who is very experienced. He's an old hand at this sort of job.
old maid an unmarried woman who is past the usual age of marriage.
the old old people. hospitals for the old.