What is Old Maid?
1.
when a woman never gets married.
she will die an old maid
2.
A kernel of popcorn that did not pop when heated.
There's a fine art to timing microwave popcorn, where you avoid burning the ones that did pop at the expense of leaving some old maids. Why 'old maid', you ask? They're the ones left behind that haven't been 'popped'.
3.
The modern-day word,
She's an old maid who was never interested in men.
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