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Meaning old maid meaning

What does old maid mean?

old maid

— noun (= spinster) an elderly unmarried woman — noun the loser in a game of old maid — 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 (= zinnia) any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads — noun (= periwinkle) commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers

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old maid English » English

spinster rose periwinkle red periwinkle periwinkle old maid flower Madagascar periwinkle Cape periwinkle zinnia cayenne jasmine Vinca rosea Catharanthus roseus unmarried single puritan prude prig plumed trevally older unmarried woman mirrorfish mirror fish living without one’s mother-in-law large thread-fin jackfish horse mackerel hag frump diamond trevally diamond fish black Maria bachelor Indian threadfish Indian threadfin trevally Indian threadfin Indian thread-finned trevally Indian mirrorfish