Talk:thornback

Other (mentiony) cites of the spinster sense

• 2016, Kate Bolick, Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own, Broadway Books (→ISBN), page 17:

  If a woman wasn't married by twenty-three she became a "spinster." If she was still unwed at twenty-six, she was written off as a hopeless “thornback," a species of flat, spiny fish—a discouraging start to America's long evolution […]

• 2020, Marilyn Brokaw Hall, Lights Above Cass (→ISBN):

  The word bachelor has kind of a romantic ring to it, compared to thornback or spinster, don't you think[?]

- -sche (discuss) 01:52, 6 July 2020 (UTC)