Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - old maid
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Old maid
old maid
(old maids) People sometimes refer to an old or middle-aged woman as an old maid when she has never married and they think that it is unlikely that she ever will marry. This use could cause offence. Alex is too young to be already thinking of herself as an old maid. = spinster N-COUNT c darkgreen]disapproval
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1.
noun Date: circa 1530 1. spinster 3 2. a prim fussy person he was a real ~ about burning rubbish — R. C. Ruark 3. a simple card game in which cards are matched in pairs and the player holding the unmatched card at the end loses • old-maidish adjective • old-maidishness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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~ n 1 an offensive expression meaning a woman who has never married and is not young any more 2 informal someone who pays too much attention to unimportant matters and has old-fashioned ideas - old-maidish adj ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
3.
{n. phr.} A spinster; a woman who has never married. * /Because my old maid aunt is a terrific cook as well as a good-looking woman, nobody understands why she never married./ ...Английский словарь американских идиом
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