oldman
English
editNoun
editoldman (plural oldmen)
- (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.