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old maid
noun
- Disparaging and Offensive. an elderly or confirmed spinster.
- a fussy, timid, prudish person.
- Cards.
- a simple game, played with a deck having one card removed, in which the players draw from one another to match pairs and the one holding an odd queen at the end loses.
- the loser of such a game.
old maid
noun
- a woman regarded as unlikely ever to marry; spinster
- informal.a prim, fastidious, or excessively cautious person
- 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
Sensitive Note
Derived Forms
- 藢辞濒诲-藞尘补颈诲颈蝉丑, adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of old maid1
Example Sentences
If they chance upon the foul water, they are set to marry a widow or widower and if they choose the empty dish "the person is destined to be a bachelor or an old maid".
I thought about the days when Great-great-aunt Florentine played old maid with me and Tidings.
鈥淏ut then, to be an old maid at last, like Miss Bates!鈥
鈥淒on鈥檛 be alarmed. I鈥檓 not one of the agreeable sort. Nobody will want me, and it鈥檚 a mercy, for there should always be one old maid in a family.鈥
The younger girls formed hopes of coming out a year or two sooner than they might otherwise have done; and the boys were relieved from their apprehension of Charlotte鈥檚 dying an old maid.
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