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American Heritage Dictionary (5 definitions)
- Offensive A woman who has remained single beyond the conventional age for marrying.
- Informal A person regarded as being primly fastidious.
- Games A card game in which the player who holds a designated card at the end is the loser.
- Games The loser of this game.
- Chiefly Southern U.S. See zinnia.
–noun
Century Dictionary (2 definitions)
- The house-or garden-plant Vinca rosea.
- A gaping clam: same as gaper, 4.
–noun
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- A young lieutenant at the Academy and his fiancée were seen by an old maid at the hotel to kiss each other.—Henry Ossian Flipper The Colored Cadet at West Point
- How queer it seems to me that people won't let me be a little girl and will act as if I were an old maid or matron of ninety-nine!—The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
- She evidently had in mind the typical old maid with gimlet ringlets!—Memories and Anecdotes
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