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old woman
noun
old woman
[
countable
]
British English
old-fashioned
informal
1
somebody's old woman
someone's wife or mother
2
a man who pays too much attention to small, unimportant details
—
old womanish
adjective
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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