Old Maid

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An old woman who has never married; a spinster.

   “If she is looking for the perfect man before she marries, she'll be an old maid.”

2. isim The Madagascar periwinkle.

   “The following are the only hardy species grown, but V. rosea, with rosy or white flowers, is a pretty greenhouse plant known as ' Old Maid ' or ' Madagascar Periwinkle'.”

3. isim The common zinnia.

   “Zinnias are sometimes known as "Old Maids" in the South.”

4. isim An unpopped kernel in a batch of popped popcorn kernels.

   “2004 April 29 – May 5, "Unpopped Kernels Costing U.S. Billions", The Onion, available in Embedded in America, →ISBN, page 147, Crawford asked Congress to double funding for the FDA's $200 million old-maid-elimination research project.”

5. isim A card game in which cards must be paired and one unmatchable card is designated "old maid".
6. isim The unmatchable card in that game.
7. isim 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.

   “The only card games I know are Go Fish and Old Maid.”

8. isim The unmatchable card itself.

   “The Joker will serve as the Old Maid.”