Crossword-Solution: SPINSTER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spinster | n. | A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin. |
| Spinster | n. | A man who spins. |
| Spinster | n. | An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname. |
| Spinster | n. | A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPINSTER | anagram | PRENTISS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
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greedy person
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Sentences with SPINSTER (5)
She was a needy and thrifty spinster, who never hesitated to declare that the lovely view was all very well, but that for her own part she lived in the villa for cheapness, and that if she had a clear three hundred pounds a year she would go and really enjoy life near her sister, a baronet’s lady, at Glasgow.
The pale, spectacled spinster in charge, to whom we complained of this, was astonished and offended at what she considered our interference, and answered that “the children liked it warm,” as for herself she “had a cold and could not think of opening a window.” If the rooms were too warm it was the janitor’s fault, and he had gone out! Twelve o’clock struck before we had finished our tour of inspection.
She said the true word for them was the old Saxon term “spinster”; that it proved that they performed the work of the house, and that it was a term of honor of which she was proud.
Lay to rest, and died alone, April 26, 1893.” Fanny had heard the story of Sarah Cannon, a stern spinster who had achieved the climb to the Peak, and who had met with mishap on the down trail.
Fraulein Anna, foredoomed to a spinster’s life, with her high cheek-bones and large misshapen nose, laid great stress upon character.
Quotes with SPINSTER (3)
Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?
After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.
Steerpike of the Many Problems,” said the Doctor. “What did you say they were? My memory is so very untrustworthy. It’s as fickle as a fox. Ask me to name the third lateral bloodvessel from the extremity of my index finger that runs east to west when I lie on my face at sundown, or the percentage of chalk to be found in the knuckles of an average spinster in her fifty-seventh year, ha, ha, ha! — or even ask me, my dear boy, to give details of the pulse rate of frogs two minut…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 36 times in crossword archives (1951–2018).