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old man

noun

Etymology

From Middle English alde mann, aldman, elde man, oldeman, from Old English eald man.

  1. inherited from eald man
  2. inherited from alde mann

Definitions

  1. An elderly man.

  2. One's father.

    • He smacked me around some. Didn't everybody's old man?
    • One of her companions - a lanky youth with a Beatle-cut hairdo - hammered in a pin with the flat of his hand and hissed: "That's for the old man - he wouldn't let me use the car tonight."
    • ‘I use the same back-hand flip me old man useda use to knock me old lady arse-over-’ead an’ Stiffer than Mo.’

  3. A husband, or male significant other, irrespective of age.

    • “[…] Now if that thing is balling—and your old lady or your old man is off somewhere flashing and doesn't want to be touched—well, you get put down on acid, you can be on a bummer for months.”
    • I was going through my old man’s pockets this morning
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    1. One's male employer, irrespective of age.

    2. A unit's commanding officer, or the commander of a naval vessel, irrespective of age.

    3. An Australian Aboriginal elder.

      • Big Paddy nursed his grief in a quiet, mad fury. Then he urged the Old Men to ‘sing out’ those responsible for the death of his son.

    4. Term of address for a male friend, irrespective of age.

      • “Don't mention it, old man,” I responded courteously.
      • 'Coming up, coming up, coming up,' Pop said. 'There you are, Charley, old man. Larkin Special. Don't ask what's in it. Don't stare at it. Don't think. Just drink it down. In ten minutes you'll feel perfick again.'

    5. Synonym of Old Adam.

    6. Synonym of southernwood.

    7. The state of human nature without the spiritual transformation brought about by…

      The state of human nature without the spiritual transformation brought about by redemption through Jesus Christ.

      • A new light has entered into the life and transformed it wonderfully, the soul has been born again, the old man has been put off, the new man which is akin to Jesus Christ has been put on.

    8. Used attributively to denote something of exceptional size, strength, age etc.

      • ‘You watch out for them old man brown snakes in here. I seen a shed skin back there in the hall.’

    9. A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as…

      A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Old Man Winter or Old Man River.

      • But it was really Old Man Concentration and his partner, Co-operation, that put across the big clean-up.
      • Big-Horn hadn't been told whom he was to fight, and when he found that it was Old Man Coyote, he was disappointed.

    10. A creator god in some Native American mythologies.

      • The Wiyot say that Condor recreated mankind after Old Man wiped out humanity with a flood.

    11. Ellipsis of Old Man of Coniston.

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Derived

Old Man of Coniston, old man yaoi

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA