(noun) A guy who is over 30 and never married, which makes him seem stale, moldy, asexual, dried up, obviously unmarryable, unattractive, spent, & like an old loaf of bread, way past his due date. This noun describes a male person in the same way a whole slew of derogatory & sexist nouns have been used historically to describe a female in the same boat (for ex.: spinster,
old maid, hag,
harpy, witch,
crone, shrew, battleax,
old bat, bag, nag, etc. etc. etc. Since the male-centric culture doesn’t have a version of the many derogatory words for such a thing, “
strom” was chosen by a
plurality of women, (members of the Red Lipstick Mafia,) because it makes one think of that
crinkly, wrinkled old racist senator, “
Strom” Thurmond. We are satisfied with this word “strom,” but hope to see many synonyms added, like the ones you can find in every dictionary, negatively & rudely describing unmarried and/or females, always with (derogatory) preceding the definition.
I was chatting with a few of my former
classmates about what awesome, brilliant, beautiful, and successful women we have become, when Judy commented on
how sad it was to see that quite a few of guys from our class had turned out to be old “stroms.” Brenda just shook her head, and it was charmingly coincidental when
Debbie & I responded at the same time, saying (with true sympathy,) “Bless their hearts!”