old woman
noun [C] disapprovingDefinition
› a man who worries about matters and details that are not important: What an old woman Dave is - he nearly had a fit because he got mud on his shoes!Complaining
(Definition of old woman noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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