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4 dictionary results for: old maid
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old maid
–noun
| 1. | Usually Disparaging and Offensive. an elderly or confirmed spinster. |
| 2. | a fussy, timid, prudish person. |
| 3. | Cards.
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[Origin: 1520–30
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| old maid
n.
old'-maid'ish (ōld'mā'dĭsh) adj. |
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| zin·ni·a
(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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