oldman

See also: Oldman, old-man, old man, and Old Man

English

Noun

oldman (plural oldmen)

1. (now nonstandard) Alternative form of old man.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 322:

     And therein ſat an old oldman, halfe blind,
     And all decrepit in his feeble corſe, […] .

   • 1891, Armenian popular songs, translated into English, page 64:

     Our Lord an oldman with a white beard
     Seated in glory on the cross […]

   • 1986, A. R. Flowers, De mojo blues: de quest of HighJohn de conqueror, page 160:

     One of the oldmen started jabbering, US number one, VC number ten thou . . .

   • 2007, Bijay Kumar Das, Critical essays on post-colonial literature, page 146:

     The agony of an oldman for being neglected in the family and ill-treated by his daughter-in-law, abides.

Further reading

• old man, (oldman*2000) at Google Ngram Viewer

Anagrams

• Almond, Dolman, Lamond, Maldon, almond, dolman