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English
Adjective
owld (comparative owlder, superlative owldest)
- Eye dialect spelling of old.
1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “Irons in the Fire. Opes Strepitumque.”, in The Wrecker, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, , →OCLC, page 115:A sore penny it has cost me, first and last, and by all tales, not worth an owld tobacco pipe."
1909, Leland Powers, Practice Book:I was standin' by owld Foley's gate, whin I heard the cry of the hounds coming across the tail of the bog, an' there they wor, my dear, spread out like the tail of a paycock, an' the finest dog fox ye ever seen a sailin' ahead of thim up the boreen, and right across the churchyard.
1880, [George] Bernard Shaw, chapter X, in The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage, London: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1905, →OCLC, page 185:Woy, owld Lind sends me in to Conly to cam in to him into the board-room. […] You should 'a seen the owld josser's feaches wnoy towld im.
1917, Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages:Shure the Dog and the Cat both av thim was scairt, and the owld white-faced cow come a-runnin' an' jumped the bars to get aff av the road."
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