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spinster

noun as in (offensive) unmarried woman

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The image of a lonely spinster comforting herself with cats has been replaced with, well, Taylor Swift: a sexy and successful woman who has cats because she likes them and because no man can tell her otherwise.

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The author is looking for a job and taking allergy shots so that she can one day become a spinster with two cats.

Colman plays Edith, an uptight spinster who lives with her elderly parents, and Buckley plays her rowdy Irish neighbor Rose.

“What I saw with the first show was that the people that came did not fit the model of the hoarder, spinster, crazy cat lady,” she said.

“What I saw with the first show was that the people that came did not fit the model of the hoarder, spinster, crazy cat lady,” she said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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