N'Awlins Contrarian's definitions

old maid

a woman who has passed the age at which women typically marry (for the first time) and/or have children without doing either (derogatory term; "maid" is short for "maiden" meaning "virgin", and stems from the former presumption that a woman who had neither married nor had children was a virgin)

My mother had an old maid aunt who lived with my mother's parents.

by N'Awlins Contrarian March 31, 2010