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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.
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
1520–30
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Old maid
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| old maid | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a woman regarded as unlikely ever to marry; spinster |
| 2. | informal a prim, fastidious, or excessively cautious person |
| 3. | 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 |
| old-'maidish | |
| —adj | |
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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old maid
simple card game popular with young children. It takes its name from a 19th-century specially illustrated deck of cards showing colourful characters in matching pairs, plus a single old maid card. In Germany the equivalent game is called schwarzer Peter ("black Peter") and in France vieux garcon ("old boy").
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