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Originally posted by robustpuppy
What do you mean, "you," Mme. Smug Married?
spin ster
a woman whose occupation is to spin
archaic an unmarried woman of a gentle family
an unmarried woman and esp. one past the common age for marrying
a woman who seems unlikely to marry
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I was all excited that I managed to weasel my way out of spinsterhood until I hit the last two definitions. "Gentle" would never be a word used to describe my family. "Unlikely to marry" and "past the common age for marrying" hit a little closer to home.
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