Timeline for How do you name the phenomenon of being single at a late age?
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| Nov 12, 2022 at 10:50 | comment | added | livresque | @PhilFreedenberg Magister, that one is a big masculine singular from Latin. Buster, it's time for the hipsters to muster up some monster that won't fester, one faster than than a postmaster generalization that "-ster suffix indicates female." Mister. | |
| Nov 12, 2022 at 7:35 | comment | added | Jack O'Flaherty | Etymonline fleshes out the source of the word: etymonline.com/word/spinster | |
| Nov 11, 2022 at 21:35 | comment | added | Phil Freedenberg | The -ster suffix indicates a female | |
| Nov 11, 2022 at 16:37 | comment | added | Marthaª | For a while, I was determined to be a spinster in both senses of the word, but I discovered that spinning is just not my thing. | |
| Nov 10, 2022 at 18:56 | vote | accept | Michael | ||
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| Nov 10, 2022 at 18:39 | comment | added | Boba Fit | The source of the word is... Strange. It refers to the frequent occupation of single adult women of spinning wool into yarn. Thus spin-ster. | |
| Nov 10, 2022 at 16:44 | comment | added | Michael | Thanks, I am looking for more "academic" appropriate word. But I understand there's no such word | |
| Nov 10, 2022 at 16:20 | comment | added | Jack O'Flaherty | Adjectives from AHD - spinsterish, spinsterly | |
| Nov 10, 2022 at 16:07 | history | answered | DJClayworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |