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old-maidish
old maidn.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.ThesaurusAdj. | 1. | old-maidish - primly fastidiousold-womanishfastidious - giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness" |
old-maidishadjectiveMarked 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.TranslationsEncyclopediaSeeold maidold-maidish
Synonyms for old-maidishadj marked by excessive concern for propriety and good formSynonyms- bluenosed
- genteel
- precise
- priggish
- prim
- prissy
- proper
- prudish
- puritanical
- strait-laced
- stuffy
- Victorian
Synonyms for old-maidishadj primly fastidiousSynonymsRelated Words |