old-maidship
/ˌəʊl(d)ˈmeɪdʃɪp/noun
= old-maidhood.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), poet, critic, and philosopher. From old maid + -ship.
- on the dot
- on the downgrade
- on the drawing board
- on the edge of one's seat
- on the face of it
- on the fiddle
- on-the-field
- on the flat
- on the fly
- on the front foot
- on the game
- on the go
- on the grog
- on the ground
- on the hip
- on the home front
- on the hoof
- on the hook for
- on the hop
- on the horizon
- on the horn
- on the horns of a dilemma
- on the hour
- on the house
- on the improve