Owld

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

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."

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.

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."

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Word Forms

• owlder
• owldest

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