[old maid] n (ca. 1530) 1: spinster 3
2: a prim fussy person "he was a real old maid about burning rubbish --R. C. Ruark"
3: a simple card game in which cards are matched in pairs and the player holding the unmatched card at the end loses -- old-maid.ish adj -- old-maid.ish.ness n