ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Owld

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Owld is an adjective meaning Eye dialect spelling of old.

Meaning

Eye dialect spelling of old.

Example Sentences

A sore penny it has cost me, first and last, and by all tales, not worth an owld tobacco pipe."
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.
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."
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.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include olde, aged, olden, auld, ageable, elderly.

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