"Old Maid" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /əʊld meɪd/ Forms: Old Maids [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~|head=Old Maid}} Old Maid (countable and uncountable, plural Old Maids)
  1. (uncountable) A children's card game, sometimes played with a special deck, where the object of the game is for each player to find matches for all the cards in his hand, without being stuck with the single unmatchable card. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Card games Translations (card game): 潛烏龜 (Chinese Cantonese), 潜乌龟 (cim⁴ wu¹ gwai¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 潛烏龜 (Chinese Mandarin), 潜乌龟 (qiánwūguī) (Chinese Mandarin), Sorte Per (Danish), Pekka (Finnish), mustapekka (Finnish), Pekka-peli (Finnish), pouilleux [masculine] (French), vieux garçon [masculine] (French), Schwarzer Peter [masculine] (German), asino [masculine] (Italian), 婆抜き (Japanese), ババ抜き (babanuki) (Japanese), svarteper [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), piotruś [masculine] (Polish), fedor [masculine] (Portuguese), jogo do mico [masculine] (Portuguese), ве́дьма f /lit: witch/ (védʹma) (Russian), culo sucio [masculine] (Spanish), poto sucio [masculine] (Spanish), Svarte Petter (Swedish), อีแก่กินน้ำ (ii-gɛ̀ɛ-gin-náam) (Thai), อีแก่ (ii-gɛ̀ɛ) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-Old_Maid-en-noun-sa9ZwREY Disambiguation of Card games: 92 8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Cantonese translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Thai translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 96 4 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 94 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 97 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 97 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Cantonese translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 96 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Thai translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of 'card game': 94 6
  2. (countable) The unmatchable card itself. Tags: countable Translations (unmatchable card): Pekka (Finnish), Musta Pekka (Finnish), ババ (baba) (Japanese), fede [masculine] (Portuguese), mico [masculine] (Portuguese), Svarte Petter (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-Old_Maid-en-noun-YGQZTjma Disambiguation of 'unmatchable card': 37 63

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.