old maid:
(plural: ‘old maids‘; for the right pronunciation, please click here)
a typical old maid (aged unmarried woman)
an elderly unmarried woman (a woman who has not married beyond the conventional age for marrying);
a spinster;
any person (man or woman) who is very careful about everything and is very difficult to please or satisfy;
a player in a card game who is a loser,
an old maid (a man who is difficult to please)
They engaged an old maid to look after their teenage daughters.
My wife’s uncle is such an old maid that we find it difficult to make him happy.
The unpopped popcorn kernels are called old maids because nobody wants as nobody wants a woman who has passed the usual right age for marriage.
please click here, for an article about the feelings of an old maid, please click here and for a news article about old maids in Asia that shows us how we come across this word in our daily browsing, please click here and (For a discussion in a blog post with threads that shows the difference between an old lady and a spinster, please click here.)
