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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Offensive Used as a disparaging term for a woman who is no longer young and has not married.
- noun Informal A person regarded as being primly fastidious.
- noun A card game in which the player who holds a designated card at the end is the loser.
- noun The loser of this game.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The house-or garden-plant Vinca rosea.
- noun A gaping clam: same as
gaper , 4.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pejorative An
old woman who has never married; aspinster . - noun A particular kind of
periwinkle . - noun A particular kind of
zinnia . - noun An
unpopped kernel in abatch ofpopped popcorn kernels. - noun A
card game in whichcards must bepaired and one undesirable card is designated "old maid". - noun An
unpaired card in that game.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid')
- noun an elderly unmarried woman
- noun the loser in a game of old maid
- noun any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
- noun commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
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