OLD MAID


Meaning of OLD MAID in English

noun

1. : spinster 3

2. : a prim nervous person of either sex who frets over inconsequential details : fussbudget

3. : a simple game of matching cards which is played with a pack with one queen removed and in which the player holding the odd queen at the end of the game is an “old maid”

4.

a. West Indies : periwinkle I 1c

b. : a common garden zinnia ( Zinnia elegans )

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.