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old maid
- a woman, esp. an older woman, who has never married; spinster: a mild term of contempt
- a prim, prudish, fussy person
- a simple card game played with a deck containing one card with no match, the loser being the player left with that card after all the others have been paired
Related Forms:
- oldmaidish adjective
See old maid in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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