old-maidish


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old maid

n.
1. Offensive Used as a disparaging term for a woman who is no longer young and has not married.
2. Informal A person regarded as being primly fastidious.
3. Games
a. A card game in which players match cards into pairs using a deck that has an odd number of cards. The player who holds the unmatched card at the end loses.
b. The loser of this game.
old′-maid′ish (-mā′dĭsh) adj.
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Adj.1.old-maidish - primly fastidious
old-womanish
fastidious - giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"
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old-maidish

adjective
Marked by excessive concern for propriety and good form:
bluenosed, genteel, precise, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, strait-laced, stuffy, Victorian.
Idiom: prim and proper.
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old-maidish

[ˈəʊldˈmeɪdɪʃ] ADJ (= spinsterish) → de solterona; (= fussy) → remilgado
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A gentle, old-maidish person and a sweet young girl of seventeen sat right in front of us that night at the Mannheim opera.
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The Irwines should dine with him every week, and have their own carriage to come in, for in some very delicate way that Arthur would devise, the lay-impropriator of the Hayslope tithes would insist on paying a couple of hundreds more to the vicar; and his aunt should be as comfortable as possible, and go on living at the Chase, if she liked, in spite of her old-maidish ways--at least until he was married, and that event lay in the indistinct background, for Arthur had not yet seen the woman who would play the lady-wife to the first-rate country gentleman.
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But Frieda was looking the other way, and Margaret travelled on to town feeling solitary and old-maidish. How like an old maid to fancy that Mr.
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