| 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 | |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |