owld
English
Adjective
owld (comparative owlder, superlative owldest)
- Eye dialect spelling of old.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne, The Wrecker:
- 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.
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