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old maid

–noun

1.	Usually Disparaging and Offensive. an elderly or confirmed spinster.

2.	a fussy, timid, prudish person.

Cards.

a.	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.

b.	the loser of such a game.

[Origin: 1520–30

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old maid
n.

Offensive A woman who has remained single beyond the conventional age for marrying.
Informal A person regarded as being primly fastidious.
Games
1. A card game in which the player who holds a designated card at the end is the loser.
2. The loser of this game.
Chiefly Southern U.S. See zinnia.

old'-maid'ish (ōld'mā'dĭsh) adj.

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zin·ni·a Audio Help (zĭn'ē-ə) Pronunciation Key
n. Any of various plants of the genus Zinnia, native to tropical America, especially Z. elegans, widely cultivated for its showy, rayed, variously colored flower heads. Also called regionally old maid, old maid flower.

[New Latin Zinnia, genus name, after Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727-1759), German botanist.]

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old maid
noun
1.	an elderly unmarried woman [syn: spinster]
2.	any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads [syn: zinnia]
3.	commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers [syn: periwinkle]
4.	the loser in a game of old maid
5.	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')

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old maid

an unmarried woman who is past the usual age of marriage

Arabic:	عانِس، فاتَها وقت الزَّواج
Chinese (Simplified):	老处女
Chinese (Traditional):	老處女
Czech:	stará panna
Danish:	pebermø
Dutch:	oude vrijster
Estonian:	vanatüdruk
Finnish:	vanhapiika
French:	vieille fille
German:	alte Jungfer
Greek:	ανύπαντρη γυναίκα
Hungarian:	vénkisasszony
Icelandic:	piparmey
Indonesian:	perawan tua
Italian:	zitella

Japanese:	オールドミス
Latvian:	vecmeita
Lithuanian:	senmergė
Norwegian:	peppermø, gammel jomfru
Polish:	stara panna
Portuguese (Brazil):	solteirona
Portuguese (Portugal):	solteirona
Romanian:	fată bătrână
Russian:	старая дева
Slovak:	stará dievka
Slovenian:	stara devica
Spanish:	solterona
Swedish:	gammal ungmö
Turkish:	evde kalmış kız