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old_maid
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[ noun ] an elderly unmarried woman
Synonyms Used in print (Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)Or you could hope the parachute would n't open just so you could say you saw it not open , not because you meant any harm to Starkey_Poe in his suit of red underwear , but mainly because you were tired_of being an old_maid - a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant , but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go_on like everything is all_right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice : `` I think I 'm pregnant '' . So you sit in the car and listen to the air run_out and listen to the rain and see the mud in_front_of the headlights , waiting for you , for your new spectator_pumps , waiting for you to squat by yourself out there in your tight skirt , crying and afraid and trying to get that damned son-of-a-bitch tire off , because that is being an old_maid too , if you happen to drive a car , it is changing the tire yourself in the night , and in the mud and the rain , hating to get out in it but afraid to stay and afraid to try to walk out for help . And every sound that might be the rain also might be the man who thinks after he has raped you he has to beat your brains out with a tire_tool so you won n't tell , a combination like ham_and_eggs , rape her and kill her , and that is being an old_maid too . Back at the Factory-to-You with the other old_maids , back there she was the youngest clerk and she was thirty-four , which made her young enough to resent the usual ideal working conditions , like the unventilated toilet with the door you had to hold shut while you sat_down . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (cards,games) 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')
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[ noun ] (botany) any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
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[ noun ] a person who is primly fastidious
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[ noun ] (botany) commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
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