Old Maid (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. 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.
noun
  1. a woman regarded as unlikely ever to marry; spinster
  2. 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 Maid (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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