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Recent Examples of neatnikNewgarden is a neatnik, an organizer, someone who wonders aloud about his OCD tendencies.—Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2018
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old maid
Noun
Many of Another Period’s best gags come out of its suffragette story line, led by old maid and eldest Bellacourt sister Hortense and her Newport Association of Gal Spinsters, or NAGS.
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Elle Carroll,
Vulture,
11 Aug. 2025
My dad was divorced, and my mom was an old maid by Belarusian standards.
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