Definitions for old-maid

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old-maid old maid

Old-Maid is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in old-maid (-addilmo).

Definitions for old-maid

noun

1. Disparaging and Offensive. an elderly or confirmed spinster.
2. a fussy, timid, prudish person.
3. Cards. 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. the loser of such a game.

Origin of old-maid

First recorded in 1520-30

Examples for old-maid

"It smells much nicer here than at your aunt's," said the old maid.

That morning, however, it was for Madame Quenu that the old maid had a shock in store.

My high-school friends had their priorities straight: they knew not to become an “old maid” or an “old mom.”

With eyes like those, said the old maid, one might even see through a door.

Most likely, he would have been an old bachelor and Amalia an old maid.

It was all over; that old maid and that aged Cardinal could leave no posterity.

Both the suit and the armada were left in the bay of Biscay, and the queen an old maid.

The Bondon had already disappeared within the old maid's bag.

Remember the days when an unmarried 16 year old was considered an old maid?

"Well, that's more than I can tell you," replied the old maid.