† pussockn.
Obsolete. rare.
An old maid. Cf. tabby n. 3a.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > unmarried woman > [noun] > elderly
old maid1530
old maiden1566
pussock1622
ape-leader1652
thornback1694
spinster1719
tabby1748
virgin1759
tea-bottle1909
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 26 I haue knowne since some old Maids (pussockes in comparison of her [sc. my Mother]) of greater yeeres, and lesse handsomnesse, that would call themselues..young Girles and little pretty Maidens.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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n.1622- plenteousser
- plenteoussest
- plenteouste
- plentier
- plenties
- plentiest
- plentiful
- plentifully
- plentifulness
- plentifulnesses
- plentify
- plentifying
- plentily
- plentiness
- plentitude
- plentitudes
- plentive
- plenty
- plenty is no dainty
- plenty of
- plenty price
- plenty-governess
- plenty-monger
- plenty-scanting
- plentygoverness