ALL meanings of old maid
old maid
O o - noun old maid Disparaging and Offensive. an elderly or confirmed spinster. 1
- noun old maid a fussy, timid, prudish person. 1
- noun old maid 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. 1
- noun old maid mature spinster, unmarried woman 1
- countable noun old maid People sometimes refer to an old or middle-aged woman as an old maid when she has never married and they think that it is unlikely that she ever will marry. This use could cause offence. 0
- noun old maid a woman regarded as unlikely ever to marry; spinster 0
- noun old maid a prim, fastidious, or excessively cautious person 0
- noun old maid 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 0
- noun old maid a woman, esp. an older woman, who has never married; spinster 0
- noun old maid a prim, prudish, fussy person 0
- noun old maid a simple card game played with a deck containing one card with no match, the loser being the player left with that card after all the others have been paired 0