old mann.

Brit.

/ˌəʊl(d) ˈman/, U.S.

/ˈoʊl(d) ˈmæn/

Inflections: Plural old men;

Forms: see old adj. and man n.¹ Also with capital initials.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: old adj., man n.¹

Etymology: < old adj. + man n.¹ Compare old woman n., old wife n.In sense 2 after post-classical Latin vetus homo (Vulgate), Hellenistic Greek παλαιὸς ἄνθρωπος (New Testament: Romans 6:6, Colossians 3:9, Ephesians 4:22). With forms in ole compare ole adj.

I. A person.

a. A man who is old; a man who is past middle age.

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the world > people > person > old person > old man > [noun]

old maneOE

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Nestor?c1510

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eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. ii. 30 Ealdes mannes eagan beoþ unscearpsyno.

OE Vercelli Homilies (1992) xvii. 281 Ðær wæs þa sum eald man in Hierusalem in þære byrig in þa ilcan tid se wæs haten Simeon.

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1127 He wæs eald man & forbroken man.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13212 To gan biforenn alde menn Inn alle gode þæwess.

?a1300 Iacob & Iosep (Bodl.) (1916) 335 (MED) Þo wrong he his honden, Iacob þe elde man.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 755 (MED) Þis tueie kinges nome hor ost..& binome þis oldemannes lond.

?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1940) 145 (MED) Forqwy I am a nold mane, Despyse thy fadyr sone þou begane.

c1480 (a1400) St. Andrew 207 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 69 Myn barne,..to þis aldman enerthand is.

a1500 Gesta Romanorum (Gloucester) (1971) 726 (MED) Þer þou schallt fynde a noldeman with a staffe.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. ii. 31 There shal no oldeman be in thy house.

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 10 Old men are lesse nourished: also generation and augmentation ceaseth.

1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 44 For an old man to marry a young wife..is become the A la mode of the times.

1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body ii. i. 16 These young Fellows think old Men get Estates for nothing but them to squander away, in dicing.

1781 J. Moore View Soc. Italy (1795) I. 189 A Duo performed by an old man and a young woman.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. i. 14 An old man's stories of a past age.

1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. vi. 99 There, we found, sitting by a fire, a very old man in a flannel coat.

1915 M. J. Cawein Cup of Comus 16 An old man, leaning on a cane, Comes slowly down the locust lane.

1959 P. O'Brian Unknown Shore xiv. 280 The governor of Valparaiso was an avaricious old man.

2001 Independent 18 May 16/7 Even as an old man, he was kept under ‘city arrest’ in Jakarta.

b. colloquial. A person's father; a woman's husband or male partner. Frequently with possessive adjective.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married man > [noun] > husband

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1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode i. i. 5 My old man has already marry'd me; for he has agreed with another old man, as rich and as covetous as himself.

1707 C. Cibber Comical Lovers v. 71 You must, and shall love me, and all that; for my old Man is coming up, and all that; and I am deses peré au dernier, and will not be disinherited.

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 191 His wife..joined her old man again as their children and grand-children danced before them.

1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xii. 75 I had yet to learn that in Michigan, as soon as a man marries he becomes ‘th' old man’.

1871 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master iii. 28 My ole man's purty well along in the world.

1892 M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Folk-talk 81 ‘T' au'd man—t' au'd woman’ are synonymous with father or mother.

1914 ‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions xix. 171 Not bad work,..bagging your Old Man's ship.

1946 R. Allen Home Made Banners xiii. 163 My old man says Quebec or no Quebec they'll have to send the Zombies over.

1974 ‘J. le Carré’ Tinker, Tailor vi. 47 She was a sight better qualified than her old man.

2000 M. Herman Purely Belter 153 Did he learn you lots of stuff like that? Your old man?

c. Theatre. The role of an old man; an actor playing the role of an old man, esp. one who specializes in such roles. Cf. old woman n. 1e.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > types of part or character

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor playing specific type of part

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1747 T. Whincop Scanderbeg 243/1 An Actor of great Humour in low Comedy, especially in the Parts of Old Men.]

1762 J. Love Let. 5 July in D. Garrick Private Corr. (1831) I. 144 His feeble old men, which he has only tried one season, will increase your hopes.

1775 T. Holcroft Let. 1 June in Memoirs (1816) I. ii. iv. 236 I have succeeded best in low comedy and old men.

1849 Theatr. Mirror 24 Sept. 31 Mr. Basil Baker..is engaged for the first old men at Drury Lane.

1901 C. Morris Life on Stage vii. 39 A company was generally made up of a leading man.., first old man, second old man, heavy man, first comedian, [etc.].

1957 Oxf. Compan. Theatre (ed. 2) 772/1 The old stock company was formed of a group of actors each of whom undertook some special line of business... The Old Man played Sir Anthony Absolute and Sir Peter Teazle, and was a person of consequence.

d. colloquial. A familiar or affectionate form of address for a man of any age. Cf. old adj. Compounds 5b.

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the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun] > familiar form of address

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1828 C. White Almack's Revisited I. iv. 100 I say, old man, do not frown so grimly, and look so dismal!

1870 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 22 Mar. (1917) I. 172 I can make the money without lecturing. Therefore, old man, count me out.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 204 Take another tumbler, old man.

1929 E. Linklater Poet's Pub vii. 91 ‘Tell me the truth,’ she says. ‘Spill the beans, Holly, old man!’

1941 W. Lewis Vulgar Streak (1985) i. x. 73 You really will have to do a bunk to-night old man!

1981 P. Larkin Let. 11 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 635 Gratters on the CBE, old man. Should have come years ago.

2001 B. Broady In this Block there lives Slag 153 ‘Sorry I've been so long, old man!’ Bryn said as he plunged back into his seat.

e. Chiefly U.S. colloquial. A familiar title used before a man's name, standing for ‘Old Mr. ——’. Used esp. to distinguish a man from his son.

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1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xii. 92 It ain't more nor a mile to ole man Sturgisses.

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 301 In the South and West, instead of saying..‘Old Mr. Smith’, it is customary to say, ‘Old man Smith’.

1862 R. R. Butler Let. 8 Jan. in Congress. Globe (1868) 4 Mar. 1664/1 I send a few lines to you by old man Jesse Price.

1902 A. D. McFaul Ike Glidden in Maine xvii. 126 There is old man Spencer who had always been poor.

1930 Chicago Daily Maroon 28 Oct. 1/3 Old Man Stagg spoke a few words in commending..the students for their show of enthusiasm.

1961 ‘E. Lathen’ Banking on Death xv. 123 Old man Michaels didn't like him.

2001 Christian Sci. Monitor 28 Dec. 23/1 Old Man Lavers had the mail boat to Busin Island.

2. Theology. Humankind (or a person) representative of unregenerate human nature; the primitive or violent aspects of a person's character (cf. old Adam n.); (esp. in biblical translation and commentary) a person prior to acceptance of Christ (cf. new man n.¹ 1a). Frequently with the.Based on the Pauline theology of salvation propounded in Romans 5:17ff., 6:6ff., etc.

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society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [noun] > degeneracy consequent on fall > unregenerate character of man

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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > regeneration > [noun] > absence of > human nature

old manOE

OE Ælfric Homily (Vitell. C.v) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 216 Ðurh Moysen wæs gesett þam ealdum mannum iu æ, & open lagu, & se leofa Hælend gebrohte us niwum mannum gife & soðfæstnysse.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Eph. iv. 22 Do ȝe awey vp the firste lyuyng, the olde man.

a1450 Pater Noster Richard Ermyte (Westm. Sch. 3) (1967) 52 (MED) Þis olde man is þat is geten in synne, born in synne, norischid in synne..þat is þe olde man þat schulde be nayled on þe crosse.

a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 110 (MED) Allas! yit liueþ in me þe olde man; he is not all crucified.

1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 146 The haly Spreit vs geue, Quhilk may our auld man mortifie.

a1628 F. Greville Treat. Monarchy xii, in Remains (1670) 149 Heralds sent by God to work progression From Sin, to Grace, and make the old Man new.

1691 B. Keach Spiritual Melody v. 258 Let sin be cover'd, the old Man Be slain, O Lord, by thee.

1732 Compl. Coll. Rep., Lyes, & Stories ii. 40 You provoke me to Wrath, and if you should raise the old Man, you can't tell what mischief may ensue.

1837 F. M. Trollope Vicar of Wrexhill I. xv 311 If the talk does but go about heaven and hell,..and reprobation and regeneration, and the old man and the new birth, that is all papa cares for.

1888 P. Schaff Mod. Christianity in Hist. Christian Church 219 Faith is the submerging of the old man, and the emerging of the new man.

1903 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 13 495 The new conception brings with it regenerative power, the ‘old’ man gives place to the ‘new’ man.

1952 Philos. Rev. 61 256 In the language of St. Paul, our old man has to be crucified and a new man born within us.

1997 Renaissance Q. 50 833 The devil is at home in the world, in the territory of what Paul calls the ‘old man’.

3. colloquial. A person in authority over others.

a. A master, overseer, or foreman; a senior official; a person in charge.

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society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > one who is in charge

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1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all iii. iii. 32 Do you think your Master has not done wisely? first to mistake our old mans humour, then to dispraise the Plays; and lastly, to discover his Acquaintance with my Mistress.

1827 R. Montgomery News of Night i. i, in America's Lost Plays (1941) XII. 145 Here's the regular board and bar bill. The old man swears if you don't pay, he'll sue you.

1844 Knickerbocker 23 83 The ‘old man’ himself came to the door, and looking down at his apprentice, shook his head sorrowfully.

1887 C. B. George 40 Years on Rail ix. 167 They feel that if they can only lay it before the ‘old man’ it will be properly dealt with.

1913 C. E. Mulford Coming of Cassidy xii. 197 ‘Is there any chance to get a job here?’ he asked anxiously. ‘You'll have to quiz th' Old Man.’

1967 E. Radford & M. A. Radford No Reason for Murder xii. 80 The Old Man is the traditional police name for a Chief Constable.

1997 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 26 Jan. 18/2 The Old Man, a boss capable of sending an employee on a business trip and turning his office into a stockroom.

b. The captain of a ship.

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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > captain or master

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1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 427/2 Bad luck to the hour, and the day, and the old man, and the boat that first brought me among you!

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxi. 374 The ‘old man’..was determined to carry sail till the last minute.

1865 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 445 The term ‘old man’, so much applied by sailors to their commander,..was hardly aptly applied, seeing the captain was only twenty-five.

1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous vii. 143 The Jennie Cushman..cut clean in half—graound up an' trompled on at that! Not a quarter of a mile away. Dad's got the old man.

1924 ‘P. Blundell’ Confessions of Seaman ii. 22 You'd better come along and see the ‘old man’ now. He's just off ashore.

1968 Daily Tel. 14 Aug. 15/4 ‘It was just like a furnace,’ said Mr. Martin Jones, deckhand... ‘The old man was grand.’

1987 W. Hagelund Whalers no More x. 151 Rust shook down from the deckheads every time the old man fired the gun.

2002 Lloyd's List (Nexis) 13 Aug. 3 The charterers will not pay for a second navigating officer and the Old Man and the Mate are..collapsing of fatigue.

c. A commanding officer in the army or air force.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [noun] > commanding officer

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1830 J. P. Martin Narr. Adventures Revolutionary Soldier viii. 190 They and some others of the men..were about to have some fun with ‘the old man’, as they generally called the Captain.

1846 G. Meade Let. 4 Mar. (1913) I. 51 I was much complimented by being invited to join General Taylor's mess... In fact, I believe the old man has taken something of a fancy to me.

1891 R. Kipling Courting Dinah Shadd in Life's Handicap 41 An' whin I'm let off in ord'ly-room through some thrick of the tongue an' a ready answer an' the ould man's mercy, is ut smilin' I feel?

1917 A. G. Empey Over Top 311 ‘The Old Man’, captain of a company. He is called ‘the old man’, because generally his age is about twenty-eight.

1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 24 It was preposterous to think of the Old Man on a bicycle.

1977 ‘D. MacNeil’ Wolf in Fold xiii. 137 The Old Man had commanded longer than most lieutenant-colonels.

2002 Sunday Mail (Scotland) (Nexis) 4 Aug. If the guys [sc. marines] know that the bloke in charge has done some of this before they take the view that it can't be so bad if the old man knows what he is doing.

II. Figurative and extended uses.

4. Mining.

a. An old vein or working which has become exhausted or has been abandoned for a long time. Also: waste material left over from the working of a mine.

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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > working face or place > disused

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > mining refuse or rubbish

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1653 E. Manlove Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 225 No miner ought of an Old man to set To seek a Lead-mine, or Lead oar to get, Untill the Burghmaster a view hath taken And find such work an Old work quite forsaken.

1685 in E. Cooper Hist. Swaledale (1973) 46 How farr the oulde man hath gone they could not tell, neither was they come to the vaine.

1710 Bp. Nicolson in W. Hutchinson Hist. Cumberland (1794) II. 214 A new belly was happily discovered before the forehead of the Old Man, which proved so rich, that in less than twenty-four hours they had filled several sacks with fine and clean-washed mineral.

1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Nivb Crusht Wholes sometimes may be mistaken for Oldman.

1866 W. S. Jevons Coal Quest. (ed. 2) 300 The thousands of tons of cinder and slag—‘old man’ as it is locally called..left by the Romans.

1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill i. 29 This led to his explaining the Old Man as a term applied both to miners of another age and the underground workings excavated by them.

†b. Iron ore containing nodules of iron carbonate. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > iron ore > others

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1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire I. 399 The Black-shale flake..produces a bed of Ironstone, that has a good deal of Spar in veins or Septa in it, called Old-Man.

1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 61 Ironstone, in cheeseshaped nodules, containing septariæ of carbonate of iron (Old man).

5. The chestnut-bellied cuckoo, Hyetornis pluvialis, of Jamaica, which has dull brown upperparts and a grey face and breast. Now Jamaican.

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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Cuculidae > piaya pluvialis

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1694 J. Ray in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 200 The referring of the Old-men, or Rain-fowls, to the Cuckow.

1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 313 They are called Old-Men from the light brown, or grey colour their downy feathers are of.

1847 P. H. Gosse & R. Hill Birds of Jamaica 277 Old Man.—Rainbird.

1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 654 Old man, the name in Jamaica for Hyetornis pluvialis, one of the cuckows which is also called Rain-bird.

1960 J. Bond Birds W. Indies 116 Chestnut-bellied cuckoo. Hyetornis pluvialis. Local names: Old Man Bird; Hunter; Rain Bird.

6. The herb southernwood, Artemisia abrotanum.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > southernwood

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1824 L. L. Cameron Hist. Marten & Two Little Scholars (new ed.) ii. 13 She tied up two or three pinks and a rose with a bit of old-man and some sweetbriar.

1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers I. i. 7 A few ‘berry’ bushes, a black-currant tree or two..with possibly a rose-tree, and ‘old man’ growing in the midst.

a1917 E. Thomas Coll. Poems (1920) 97 Old Man, or Lad's-love—in the name there's nothing To one that knows not Lad's-love, or Old Man, The hoar-green feathery herb.

1973 F. A. Boddy Foliage Plants iv. 62 Old world charm and sentimentality can be further satisfied with the grey, feathery, aromatic leaves of Artemisia abrotanum, commonly called southernwood, lad's love or old man.

1999 Guardian 4 Dec. (Weekend Suppl.) 87/3 Have a go with..honeysuckles. Also with spiraeas, forsythia, sambucus (elder), old man or southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum).

7. Australian. A fully grown male kangaroo.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Macropodidae > kangaroo > male > large male

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1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxvi. 160 He..relates..that he has been fortunate enough to kill an old man as he came along.

1873 J. B. Stephens Black Gin 39 The ‘old man’ fleetest of the fleet.

1927 ‘S. Rudd’ Romance of Runnibede 199 While the half-growns, or ‘flyers’, were swifter than greyhounds, many of the ‘old men’ were in difficulties after spurting a few hundred yards.

1978 E. Harding A. Marshall Talking 171 I saw the kangaroos coming up from the gully..led by a big old man in front.

†8. U.S. regional. A grizzly bear. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Ursidae (bear) > [noun] > genus Ursus > ursus arctos > brown or grizzly bear

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1886 Outing Nov. 108/1 Good boy! You've got more sand than I thought you had to tackle the old man on the open plain.

9. slang. The penis.

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the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis

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Peter1870

John Henry1874

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pud1927

hose1928

whang1928

dong1930

putz1934

porkc1935

wiener1935

weenie1939

length1949

tadger1949

winkle1951

dinger1953

winky1954

dork1961

virilia1962

rig1964

wee-wee1964

Percy1965

meat tool1966

chopper1967

schlong1967

swipe1967

chode1968

trouser snake1968

ding-a-ling1969

dipstick1970

tonk1970

noonies1972

salami1977

monkey1978

langer1983

wanker1987

1902 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang V. 99/1 Old man,..the penis.

1968 R. Lait Chance to Kill xxii. 139 There was David getting out of bed in his shirt, his old man hanging out.

1986 T. Barling Smoke vii. 134 Pimlico broke off to watch the girls on the stage... ‘I could use some of that, Chas. My old man's nudging my collar-stud.’

2001 Arena Aug. 152/4 She once knocked on the Ig's hotel room door; he answered it ‘completely naked, except for a large bath towel..that he was draping over his old man’.

Phrases

P1.

old man's darling n. a younger (sexual) partner or wife of an elderly man. Frequently in proverbial phrases.

ΚΠ

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. Iiii^v It ys better to be An olde mans derlyng, then a yong mans werlyng.

1697 E. Ravenscroft Anatomist III. i. 27 O Madam, you know not what a fine thing it is to be an old Man's darling.

1738 J. Swift Polite Conversat. 45 It is better to be an old Man's Darling, than a young Man's Warling.

1805 T. E. Hook Soldier's Return i. ii To pass my life A happy wife, Make me an old man's darling.

1878 H. J. Byron Partners for Life ii. 17 Never mind, sir. Better be an old man's darling, than a young man's slave.

1958 G. Bellairs Corpse at Carnival (1964) ix. 123 She's little more than a kid and he was sixty—I don't like old men's darlings.

1976 L. Black Healthy Way to Die ii. 14 The wife..was younger... It was obvious that her husband doted. The old man's darling.

1995 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 29 Oct. 37 I'd rather be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.

P2.

old man eloquent n. (originally, in Milton) Isocrates (436–338 b.c.), an Athenian orator who killed himself in despair after the defeat of Greece at Chaeronea; (later) (gen., in echoes of Milton) a man of great eloquence; spec. (U.S. historical) John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), sixth U.S. President, 1825–9.

ΚΠ

1645 J. Milton Sonnet x, in Poems 51 As that dishonest victory At Chæronéa,..Kil'd with report that Old man eloquent.

1795 W. Gifford Baviad & Mæviad (1827) 83 We roved..o'er Troy's devoted shores, Or follow'd, while he sought his native soil, ‘That old man eloquent’, from toil to toil.

1827 J. Mitford Sacred Specimens p. xi That old man eloquent, Whose Song made Scio's rocks relent.

a1843 H. Ware Our Societies Authors in Misc. Writings (1846) I. 255 That true ‘old man eloquent’,—Adams,—in age Filling up the strong lines of the Lecturer's page.

1848 Congress. Globe 24 Feb. 388 Let not the grave of the old man eloquent be desecrated by unfriendly remembrances.

1862 W. C. Bennett Poems (new ed.) 500 You have look'd on Landor and have heard His agèd lips utter Miltonic thought... O, old man eloquent, your place is sure..amid thought's sceptred kings.

1901 L. Morris Harvest-tide 147 Thou livest still, Brave soul, undaunted will. Thou silvery tongue, thou old man eloquent.

1908 E. C. Stedman Poems 465 Give me to die unwitting of the day,..as that old man eloquent made way From Earth, a nation's conclave hushed anear.

1956 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 22 522 The most important..phase of Adams' ‘Second Career’ is his crusade for freedom, liberty, and human rights in the House of Representatives. Here he won..the proud title of ‘Old Man Eloquent’.

2002 Hill (Nexis) 10 Apr. 25 Adams became known as ‘Old Man Eloquent’ in the House for his fight against slavery.

P3.

old man of the sea n. (in the story of Sinbad the Sailor in the Arabian Nights) the sea-god who forced Sinbad to carry him on his shoulders for many days and nights until he was thwarted by being made so drunk that he toppled off; frequently as the type of a person whom one cannot get rid of, or a troublesome burden or task.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > encumberment > that which or one who > hard to get rid of

bur1600

old man of the sea1712

Old Man of the Mountain1841

albatross1883

1712 tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. (ed. 2) III. lxxxiv. 57 You fell say they into the Hands of the old Man of the Sea, and are the first that ever escap'd strangling by him.

1809 W. Scott Let. 7 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1837) II. vii. 252 Such odious deceivers are these invalids. Mine reminds me of Sinbad's Old Man of the Sea, and will certainly throttle me if I can't somehow dismount him.

1850 C. M. Yonge Henrietta's Wish viii. 112 Uncle Roger has got hold of him, and he is as bad as the old man of the sea.

1899 Strand Mag. Mar. 308/1 When a man once gets a Cavalanci and plays to it, it sticks to him like the Old Man of the Sea.

1927 Times 22 July 15/4 The bad habit into which we slip almost unconsciously fixes itself about our necks as firmly as any Old Man of the Sea.

1965 N. Freeling Criminal Conversat. ii. xx. 186 I am tired. I find you like the Old Man of the Sea.

1991 W. Beechey Reluctant Samaritan (BNC) 4 She fastened on to the person whose house it was like the Old Man of the Sea in ‘Sinbad the Sailor’.

P4.

old man's milk n. (also old men's milk) Scottish a drink resembling eggnog, usually made with brandy, eggs, sugar, and (sometimes) cream.

ΚΠ

1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. 42 A little brandy, water, sugar, and yolks of eggs, beat up together; which I think they call Old man's milk.

1793 Aberdeen Bk.-lover IV. iii. 64 We drink ‘Old Men's Milk’; it is a perfect remedy.

1814 C. I. Johnstone Saxon & Gaël II. 78 Flora made me a bowl of ould man's milk, but nothing would bring me round.

1929 F. M. McNeill Sc. Kitchen 232 Auld man's milk... Cream, rum, whisky, or brandy, eggs, nutmeg or lemon zest... This morning dram is the same as the egg-nogg of America.

1995 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 23 Dec. 17 Other drinks which visitors..may sample are mulled wine and Old Man's Milk. The latter turns out to be more appetising than its name suggests, made as it is from a pint of single cream, a quarter-of-a-pint of brandy, sugar, and egg yolk.

P5. U.S. slang. so's your old man: (as a retort) expressing disagreement with or indifference to a previous statement, insult, etc., or derision towards the speaker.

ΚΠ

1925 P. Kearney Man's Man i. ii. 51 Mabel: I wanna drink... Le's dance... Hazel: So's your old man.

1929 E. L. Rice Street Scene ii. 139 Rose. You can't go to school looking like a little street loafer. Willie. Aw, you gimme a pain in de——... Rose. There! Now you look very nice. Willie. So's your old man!

1950 B. Schulberg Disenchanted xii. 178 There were righteous accusations and angry words... ‘Aw—so's your old man,’ Manley was saying.

1989 S. Fish Doing what comes Naturally xx. 484 An outrageous assertion that flies in the face of common sense, the equivalent in debate of ‘so's your old man’.

2000 N.Y. Times 12 Nov. iv. 6/4 ‘The so-called American democracy is giving other democracies, not as mature, some U.S. precedents to cite.’ Sure, and so's your old man.

Compounds

C1.

† old-man-house n. [after Dutch oudemannenhuis (late 17th cent. as oude mannenhuys, now rare)] Obsolete a hospital for old men.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the old

old-man-housea1661

old-woman-housea1661

a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 49 Here [sc. at Haarlem] is a most dainty curious old-man-house.

old man snapper n. (also old man schnapper) Australian a squirefish, Chrysophrys auratus, that is large and mature.

ΚΠ

1882 J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish & Fisheries New S. Wales (caption) An ‘old man schnapper’.

1965 Austral. Encycl. VIII. 169 Full-grown specimens develop a large bony protuberance on the nape, and a peculiar flabby and fleshy nose, which produces a somewhat human appearance and has earned for them the name of old-man snapper.

1974 J. M. Thomson Fish Ocean & Shore 126 A squire becomes a snapper at about one and a half kilos and thereafter matures to the old man snapper stage which may reach eighteen kilos.

C2. With old man's in plant names.

† old man's eyebrow n. Obsolete rare the sundew Drosera binata of Australia and New Zealand.

ΚΠ

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 809/1 Old-man's eyebrow, Drosera binata.

† old man's head n. Obsolete (a) a variety of dianthus; (b) the old man cactus.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pinks or carnations

gillyflower1517

carnation1538

clove gillyflower1538

incarnation1538

William1538

pink1566

John1572

Indian eye1573

sops-in-wine1573

sweet John1573

sweet-william1573

tuft gillyflower1573

Colmenier1578

small honesty1578

tol-me-neer1578

London tuft1597

maidenly pink1597

mountain pink1597

clove-carnation1605

musk-gillyflower1607

London pride1629

pride of London1629

maiden pink1650

Indian pink1664

Spanish pink1664

pheasant's eye pink1718

flake1727

flame1727

picotee1727

old man's head1731

painted lady1731

piquet1731

China-pink1736

clove1746

wild pink1753

lime-wort1777

matted thrift1792

clove-pink1837

Cheddar Pink1843

Dianthus1849

bunch pink1857

perpetual-flowering carnation1861

cliff pink1863

meadow pink1866

musk carnation1866

Jack1873

wax-pink1891

Malmaison1892

grenadin1904

the world > plants > particular plants > cactus and allies > [noun] > other cacti

hedgehog thistle1597

Opuntia1601

mescal1709

Barbados gooseberry1756

night-flowering cereus1789

vygebosch1795

night-blooming cereus1799

rhipsalis1819

pigface1830

window plant1838

old man cactus1845

cholla1846

fish-hook cactus1846

spleenwort1846

epiphyllum1858

old man's head1858

rainbow cactus1860

green snake1864

torchwood1866

queen of the night1870

vingerpol1875

nipple cactus1876

niggerhead1877

rat's tail cactus1878

rat-tail cactus1878

Christmas cactus1880

barrel cactus1881

peyote1885

mistletoe cactus1889

schlumbergera1898

pincushion1940

opuntioid1944

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Caryophyllus The varieties of these [pinks] are, the Damask Pink, White Shock, Scarlet, Pheasant's-ey'd Pink; of which there are great varieties, both with single and double flowers, Old Man's Head, Painted Lady, with several others.

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Old Man's Head, Dianthus.

1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 63 Old man's head.

1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 341 Another curious species of this genus is what is popularly termed The Old Man's Head (Cereus senilis).

† old man's mustard n. English regional Obsolete the common Eurasian yarrow, Achillea millefolium.

ΚΠ

1880 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Old Man's Mustard, Achillea Millefolium, L.—Linc. (Bottesford).

C3. Australian, New Zealand, and South African slang. attributive. Designating a thing, esp. an animal or plant, that is especially large or significant. Cf. sense 7 and old man saltbush n.

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1834 G. Bennett Wanderings New S. Wales I. xv. 286 Many persons when alone are afraid to face a large ‘old man’ Kangaroo.

1845 R. Howitt Impressions Austral. Felix 233 I stared at a man one day for saying that a certain allotment of land was ‘an old man allotment’: he meant a large allotment, the old-man kangaroo being the largest kangaroo.

1887 D. Macdonald Gum Boughs 7 Who that has ridden across the Old Man Plain.

1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xv. 199 Two 'underd ole-man rats that 'ad bin glued on t'Bunyip in mortil combat.

1930 J. Devanny Bushman Burke i. ii. 17 [He] had once taken an Old Man pig with a slasher.

1934 A. Russell Tramp-royal in Wild Austral. xxix. 190 An ‘Old Man’ sand storm. Lashed up and hurried along by a forty-mile-an-hour gale.

1941 I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang xi. 82 Fifteen years may pass before an old man flood brings a miracle to the land.

1947 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. xxxi. 259 I was the owner of a large boarhound which killed a great many ‘old men’ baboons.

1953 A. Upfield Murder must Wait xviii. 157 An old-man red-gum growing close to the track.

1972 P. Newton Sheep Thief ii. 17 The homestead..was fringed with a towering belt of real oldman pines.

1989 Alasian Post (Melbourne) 4 Nov. 56/1 ‘Old man’ is also used to describe animals, including the ‘Old Man Emu’ in the song by John Williamson.

C4. attributive. Preceding a noun: designating something personified as familiar, respected, or influential. Old Man River n. spec. the Mississippi.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > specific rivers > [noun]

Thamesc893

Father of waters (also rivers, floods)1567

muddy1825

Old Man River1902

1897 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 423/2 A broadshouldered giant, rejoicing in the name of Old Man Trouble, stalked pompously to and fro upon the bridge.]

1902 N.Y. Times 5 Dec. (advt.) Old man Winter likely to arrive any moment.

1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor iii. 37 When Old Man Trouble comes knocking at the door.

1919 C. P. Thompson Cocktails 252 Why, being officially booked to meet Old Man Death on ground, I had kept the appointment in the air.

1927 O. Hammerstein Ol' Man River (song sheet) 5 Ol' man river, dat ol' man river, He must know sumpin', but don't say nothin'.

1930 I. Gershwin But not for Me in Compl. Lyrics (1993) 167/1 Old Man Sunshine—listen, you! Never tell me Dreams come True!

1932 Sun (Baltimore) 24 Sept. 16/3 Old Man River Sinking... The north branch of the Susquehanna river is lower than it was 112 years ago.

1937 I. Gershwin Stiff Upper Lip (song) in Lyrics on Several Occasions (1959) Pip-pip to Old Man Trouble.

1949 Nat. Hist. Nov. 427/3 At last they have succeeded in vaulting the natural barriers between the Great Lakes and Old Man River.

1976 B. Bova Multiple Man v. 55 St. Louis is a dull town... Old Man River is wide and sluggish.

1987 F. Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes 349 Of course, old man whiskey plays a role.

1991 Life 11 Mar. 67/2 Old Man Winter is blowing up another snow storm, due to hit big time later tonight.

1992 Chicago Tribune 22 Dec. iii. 1/2 That old man river, the Mississippi, is one of the natural forces that has shaped the U.S. economy.

2002 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 31 Aug. 27 Old Man Snowy is where I learnt to swim and I used to swim every day with the platypus.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	old man
释义	old mann. Brit. /ˌəʊl(d) ˈman/, U.S. /ˈoʊl(d) ˈmæn/ Inflections: Plural old men; Forms: see old adj. and man n.¹ Also with capital initials. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: old adj., man n.¹ Etymology: < old adj. + man n.¹ Compare old woman n., old wife n.In sense 2 after post-classical Latin vetus homo (Vulgate), Hellenistic Greek παλαιὸς ἄνθρωπος (New Testament: Romans 6:6, Colossians 3:9, Ephesians 4:22). With forms in ole compare ole adj. I. A person. 1. a. A man who is old; a man who is past middle age. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > old man > [noun] old maneOE bevara1275 beauperec1300 vieillard1475 Nestor?c1510 old gentleman1526 haga1529 velyarda1529 old fellow?1555 old sire1557 granfer1564 vecchioc1570 ageman1571 grave-porer1582 grandsire1595 huddle-duddle1599 elder1600 pantaloon1602 cuffc1616 crone1630 old boya1637 codger?1738 dry-beard1749 eld1796 patriarch1819 oubaas1824 old chap1840 pap1844 pop1844 tad1877 old baas1882 senex1898 finger1904 AK1911 alte kacker1911 poppa stoppa1944 madala1960 Ntate1975 eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. ii. 30 Ealdes mannes eagan beoþ unscearpsyno. OE Vercelli Homilies (1992) xvii. 281 Ðær wæs þa sum eald man in Hierusalem in þære byrig in þa ilcan tid se wæs haten Simeon. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1127 He wæs eald man & forbroken man. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13212 To gan biforenn alde menn Inn alle gode þæwess. ?a1300 Iacob & Iosep (Bodl.) (1916) 335 (MED) Þo wrong he his honden, Iacob þe elde man. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 755 (MED) Þis tueie kinges nome hor ost..& binome þis oldemannes lond. ?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1940) 145 (MED) Forqwy I am a nold mane, Despyse thy fadyr sone þou begane. c1480 (a1400) St. Andrew 207 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 69 Myn barne,..to þis aldman enerthand is. a1500 Gesta Romanorum (Gloucester) (1971) 726 (MED) Þer þou schallt fynde a noldeman with a staffe. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. ii. 31 There shal no oldeman be in thy house. 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 10 Old men are lesse nourished: also generation and augmentation ceaseth. 1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 44 For an old man to marry a young wife..is become the A la mode of the times. 1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body ii. i. 16 These young Fellows think old Men get Estates for nothing but them to squander away, in dicing. 1781 J. Moore View Soc. Italy (1795) I. 189 A Duo performed by an old man and a young woman. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. i. 14 An old man's stories of a past age. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. vi. 99 There, we found, sitting by a fire, a very old man in a flannel coat. 1915 M. J. Cawein Cup of Comus 16 An old man, leaning on a cane, Comes slowly down the locust lane. 1959 P. O'Brian Unknown Shore xiv. 280 The governor of Valparaiso was an avaricious old man. 2001 Independent 18 May 16/7 Even as an old man, he was kept under ‘city arrest’ in Jakarta. b. colloquial. A person's father; a woman's husband or male partner. Frequently with possessive adjective. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married man > [noun] > husband churla800 lordeOE werec893 husbanda1275 mana1325 masterc1325 sovereign1390 maritea1398 husbandman?a1439 goodman?1507 baron1595 spouse1604 husband of one's bosom1611 old man1673 hubby1682 sposo1741 hub1809 master-man1825 pot and pan1900 mister1931 DH1993 1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode i. i. 5 My old man has already marry'd me; for he has agreed with another old man, as rich and as covetous as himself. 1707 C. Cibber Comical Lovers v. 71 You must, and shall love me, and all that; for my old Man is coming up, and all that; and I am deses peré au dernier, and will not be disinherited. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 191 His wife..joined her old man again as their children and grand-children danced before them. 1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xii. 75 I had yet to learn that in Michigan, as soon as a man marries he becomes ‘th' old man’. 1871 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master iii. 28 My ole man's purty well along in the world. 1892 M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Folk-talk 81 ‘T' au'd man—t' au'd woman’ are synonymous with father or mother. 1914 ‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions xix. 171 Not bad work,..bagging your Old Man's ship. 1946 R. Allen Home Made Banners xiii. 163 My old man says Quebec or no Quebec they'll have to send the Zombies over. 1974 ‘J. le Carré’ Tinker, Tailor vi. 47 She was a sight better qualified than her old man. 2000 M. Herman Purely Belter 153 Did he learn you lots of stuff like that? Your old man? c. Theatre. The role of an old man; an actor playing the role of an old man, esp. one who specializes in such roles. Cf. old woman n. 1e. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > types of part or character underpart1679 persona muta1714 travesty1732 soubrette1753 old man1762 small part?1774 breeches-part1779 character part1811 fat1812 chambermaida1828 fool?1835 raisonneur1845 ingénue1848 villain of the piece1854 stock character1864 feeder1866 satirette1870 character role1871 travesty1887 thinking part1890 walk-on1902 cardboard cutout1906 bit1926 good guy1928 feed1929 bad guy1932 goody1934 walkthrough1935 narrator1941 cameo1950 black hat1959 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor playing specific type of part ruffy1502 chorus1561 prologuer1570 prologue1579 turquet1625 woman actor1633 underpart1679 epilogist1716 prologist1716 epiloguizer1748 old man1762 prologuizer1762 buffo1764 extrac1777 jeune premier1817 primo buffo1826 character actor1841 utility man1849 deuteragonist1855 character comedian1857 bit playera1859 utility actor1860 serio-comic1866 juvenile lead1870 serio-comique1870 heavy1880 utility1885 thinker1886 onnagata1889 serio1889 juvenile1890 tritagonist1890 oyama1925 juve1935 1747 T. Whincop Scanderbeg 243/1 An Actor of great Humour in low Comedy, especially in the Parts of Old Men.] 1762 J. Love Let. 5 July in D. Garrick Private Corr. (1831) I. 144 His feeble old men, which he has only tried one season, will increase your hopes. 1775 T. Holcroft Let. 1 June in Memoirs (1816) I. ii. iv. 236 I have succeeded best in low comedy and old men. 1849 Theatr. Mirror 24 Sept. 31 Mr. Basil Baker..is engaged for the first old men at Drury Lane. 1901 C. Morris Life on Stage vii. 39 A company was generally made up of a leading man.., first old man, second old man, heavy man, first comedian, [etc.]. 1957 Oxf. Compan. Theatre (ed. 2) 772/1 The old stock company was formed of a group of actors each of whom undertook some special line of business... The Old Man played Sir Anthony Absolute and Sir Peter Teazle, and was a person of consequence. d. colloquial. A familiar or affectionate form of address for a man of any age. Cf. old adj. Compounds 5b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun] > familiar form of address mon amic1425 matec1500 boy1532 old lad1594 old boy1602 captaina1616 mon cher1673 old chap1823 old man1828 ou maat1838 boysie1846 old top1856 boetie1867 bra1869 cocker1888 mon vieux1888 face1891 yessir1892 George1903 old sport1905 old bean1917 segotia1917 babe1918 bro1918 tovarish1918 old egg1919 midear1921 old (tin of) fruit1923 sport1923 mush1936 cowboy1961 coz1961 wack1963 yaar1963 John1982 1828 C. White Almack's Revisited I. iv. 100 I say, old man, do not frown so grimly, and look so dismal! 1870 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 22 Mar. (1917) I. 172 I can make the money without lecturing. Therefore, old man, count me out. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 204 Take another tumbler, old man. 1929 E. Linklater Poet's Pub vii. 91 ‘Tell me the truth,’ she says. ‘Spill the beans, Holly, old man!’ 1941 W. Lewis Vulgar Streak (1985) i. x. 73 You really will have to do a bunk to-night old man! 1981 P. Larkin Let. 11 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 635 Gratters on the CBE, old man. Should have come years ago. 2001 B. Broady In this Block there lives Slag 153 ‘Sorry I've been so long, old man!’ Bryn said as he plunged back into his seat. e. Chiefly U.S. colloquial. A familiar title used before a man's name, standing for ‘Old Mr. ——’. Used esp. to distinguish a man from his son. ΚΠ 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xii. 92 It ain't more nor a mile to ole man Sturgisses. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 301 In the South and West, instead of saying..‘Old Mr. Smith’, it is customary to say, ‘Old man Smith’. 1862 R. R. Butler Let. 8 Jan. in Congress. Globe (1868) 4 Mar. 1664/1 I send a few lines to you by old man Jesse Price. 1902 A. D. McFaul Ike Glidden in Maine xvii. 126 There is old man Spencer who had always been poor. 1930 Chicago Daily Maroon 28 Oct. 1/3 Old Man Stagg spoke a few words in commending..the students for their show of enthusiasm. 1961 ‘E. Lathen’ Banking on Death xv. 123 Old man Michaels didn't like him. 2001 Christian Sci. Monitor 28 Dec. 23/1 Old Man Lavers had the mail boat to Busin Island. 2. Theology. Humankind (or a person) representative of unregenerate human nature; the primitive or violent aspects of a person's character (cf. old Adam n.); (esp. in biblical translation and commentary) a person prior to acceptance of Christ (cf. new man n.¹ 1a). Frequently with the.Based on the Pauline theology of salvation propounded in Romans 5:17ff., 6:6ff., etc. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [noun] > degeneracy consequent on fall > unregenerate character of man old manOE old leaven1537 Adama1569 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > regeneration > [noun] > absence of > human nature old manOE OE Ælfric Homily (Vitell. C.v) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 216 Ðurh Moysen wæs gesett þam ealdum mannum iu æ, & open lagu, & se leofa Hælend gebrohte us niwum mannum gife & soðfæstnysse. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Eph. iv. 22 Do ȝe awey vp the firste lyuyng, the olde man. a1450 Pater Noster Richard Ermyte (Westm. Sch. 3) (1967) 52 (MED) Þis olde man is þat is geten in synne, born in synne, norischid in synne..þat is þe olde man þat schulde be nayled on þe crosse. a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 110 (MED) Allas! yit liueþ in me þe olde man; he is not all crucified. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 146 The haly Spreit vs geue, Quhilk may our auld man mortifie. a1628 F. Greville Treat. Monarchy xii, in Remains (1670) 149 Heralds sent by God to work progression From Sin, to Grace, and make the old Man new. 1691 B. Keach Spiritual Melody v. 258 Let sin be cover'd, the old Man Be slain, O Lord, by thee. 1732 Compl. Coll. Rep., Lyes, & Stories ii. 40 You provoke me to Wrath, and if you should raise the old Man, you can't tell what mischief may ensue. 1837 F. M. Trollope Vicar of Wrexhill I. xv 311 If the talk does but go about heaven and hell,..and reprobation and regeneration, and the old man and the new birth, that is all papa cares for. 1888 P. Schaff Mod. Christianity in Hist. Christian Church 219 Faith is the submerging of the old man, and the emerging of the new man. 1903 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 13 495 The new conception brings with it regenerative power, the ‘old’ man gives place to the ‘new’ man. 1952 Philos. Rev. 61 256 In the language of St. Paul, our old man has to be crucified and a new man born within us. 1997 Renaissance Q. 50 833 The devil is at home in the world, in the territory of what Paul calls the ‘old man’. 3. colloquial. A person in authority over others. a. A master, overseer, or foreman; a senior official; a person in charge. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > one who is in charge gaffera1658 old man1668 governor1783 head woman1799 boss1806 oyakata1818 guv'nor1843 head-worker1846 jossc1860 Guv1861 Maluka1905 big guy1921 skip1921 kingfish1930 boss-man1934 pitch-and-toss1942 honcho1945 head honcho1952 1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all iii. iii. 32 Do you think your Master has not done wisely? first to mistake our old mans humour, then to dispraise the Plays; and lastly, to discover his Acquaintance with my Mistress. 1827 R. Montgomery News of Night i. i, in America's Lost Plays (1941) XII. 145 Here's the regular board and bar bill. The old man swears if you don't pay, he'll sue you. 1844 Knickerbocker 23 83 The ‘old man’ himself came to the door, and looking down at his apprentice, shook his head sorrowfully. 1887 C. B. George 40 Years on Rail ix. 167 They feel that if they can only lay it before the ‘old man’ it will be properly dealt with. 1913 C. E. Mulford Coming of Cassidy xii. 197 ‘Is there any chance to get a job here?’ he asked anxiously. ‘You'll have to quiz th' Old Man.’ 1967 E. Radford & M. A. Radford No Reason for Murder xii. 80 The Old Man is the traditional police name for a Chief Constable. 1997 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 26 Jan. 18/2 The Old Man, a boss capable of sending an employee on a business trip and turning his office into a stockroom. b. The captain of a ship. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > captain or master skipper1390 master shipmana1393 master mariner?a1400 shipmanc1405 shipmasterc1440 commanderc1450 patron1490 shipper1496 ship-governor1526 reis1585 nakhoda?1606 sea-captain1612 malem1615 manjee1683 captain1705 patroon1719 old man1821 owner1903 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 427/2 Bad luck to the hour, and the day, and the old man, and the boat that first brought me among you! 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxi. 374 The ‘old man’..was determined to carry sail till the last minute. 1865 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 445 The term ‘old man’, so much applied by sailors to their commander,..was hardly aptly applied, seeing the captain was only twenty-five. 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous vii. 143 The Jennie Cushman..cut clean in half—graound up an' trompled on at that! Not a quarter of a mile away. Dad's got the old man. 1924 ‘P. Blundell’ Confessions of Seaman ii. 22 You'd better come along and see the ‘old man’ now. He's just off ashore. 1968 Daily Tel. 14 Aug. 15/4 ‘It was just like a furnace,’ said Mr. Martin Jones, deckhand... ‘The old man was grand.’ 1987 W. Hagelund Whalers no More x. 151 Rust shook down from the deckheads every time the old man fired the gun. 2002 Lloyd's List (Nexis) 13 Aug. 3 The charterers will not pay for a second navigating officer and the Old Man and the Mate are..collapsing of fatigue. c. A commanding officer in the army or air force. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [noun] > commanding officer commanding officer1758 thanadar1802 company commander1820 old man1830 C.O.1889 skipper1906 commandant1915 1830 J. P. Martin Narr. Adventures Revolutionary Soldier viii. 190 They and some others of the men..were about to have some fun with ‘the old man’, as they generally called the Captain. 1846 G. Meade Let. 4 Mar. (1913) I. 51 I was much complimented by being invited to join General Taylor's mess... In fact, I believe the old man has taken something of a fancy to me. 1891 R. Kipling Courting Dinah Shadd in Life's Handicap 41 An' whin I'm let off in ord'ly-room through some thrick of the tongue an' a ready answer an' the ould man's mercy, is ut smilin' I feel? 1917 A. G. Empey Over Top 311 ‘The Old Man’, captain of a company. He is called ‘the old man’, because generally his age is about twenty-eight. 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 24 It was preposterous to think of the Old Man on a bicycle. 1977 ‘D. MacNeil’ Wolf in Fold xiii. 137 The Old Man had commanded longer than most lieutenant-colonels. 2002 Sunday Mail (Scotland) (Nexis) 4 Aug. If the guys [sc. marines] know that the bloke in charge has done some of this before they take the view that it can't be so bad if the old man knows what he is doing. II. Figurative and extended uses. 4. Mining. a. An old vein or working which has become exhausted or has been abandoned for a long time. Also: waste material left over from the working of a mine. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > working face or place > disused old man1653 waste1695 guag1778 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > mining refuse or rubbish rough1677 old man1747 small1778 stent1778 vestry1784 gobbin1811 spoil1838 stowing1860 dump1865 muck1883 spoil-heap1883 mine-dump1909 1653 E. Manlove Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 225 No miner ought of an Old man to set To seek a Lead-mine, or Lead oar to get, Untill the Burghmaster a view hath taken And find such work an Old work quite forsaken. 1685 in E. Cooper Hist. Swaledale (1973) 46 How farr the oulde man hath gone they could not tell, neither was they come to the vaine. 1710 Bp. Nicolson in W. Hutchinson Hist. Cumberland (1794) II. 214 A new belly was happily discovered before the forehead of the Old Man, which proved so rich, that in less than twenty-four hours they had filled several sacks with fine and clean-washed mineral. 1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Nivb Crusht Wholes sometimes may be mistaken for Oldman. 1866 W. S. Jevons Coal Quest. (ed. 2) 300 The thousands of tons of cinder and slag—‘old man’ as it is locally called..left by the Romans. 1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill i. 29 This led to his explaining the Old Man as a term applied both to miners of another age and the underground workings excavated by them. †b. Iron ore containing nodules of iron carbonate. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > iron ore > others bloodstone1504 haematite1543 yellow share1590 keel1596 brush-ore1678 mush1686 brush-iron-ore1695 iron glance1792 specular iron (also iron ore)1796 steel-ore1796 oligistc1803 black band1811 old man1811 spathose iron-ore1823 pitticite1826 siderose1834 blink klip1835 pharmacosiderite1835 sphaerosiderite1837 fossil ore1846 jacutinga1846 vignite1846 siderite1848 junckerite1865 needle iron-ore1867 xanthosiderite1868 specularite1892 pitch ore1896 minette1902 taconite1905 1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire I. 399 The Black-shale flake..produces a bed of Ironstone, that has a good deal of Spar in veins or Septa in it, called Old-Man. 1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 61 Ironstone, in cheeseshaped nodules, containing septariæ of carbonate of iron (Old man). 5. The chestnut-bellied cuckoo, Hyetornis pluvialis, of Jamaica, which has dull brown upperparts and a grey face and breast. Now Jamaican. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Cuculidae > piaya pluvialis old man1694 rain-fowl1694 rainbird1725 rain cuckoo1782 hunter1847 1694 J. Ray in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 200 The referring of the Old-men, or Rain-fowls, to the Cuckow. 1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 313 They are called Old-Men from the light brown, or grey colour their downy feathers are of. 1847 P. H. Gosse & R. Hill Birds of Jamaica 277 Old Man.—Rainbird. 1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 654 Old man, the name in Jamaica for Hyetornis pluvialis, one of the cuckows which is also called Rain-bird. 1960 J. Bond Birds W. Indies 116 Chestnut-bellied cuckoo. Hyetornis pluvialis. Local names: Old Man Bird; Hunter; Rain Bird. 6. The herb southernwood, Artemisia abrotanum. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > southernwood southernwoodOE southworta1300 averoynec1350 southernwort1510 sullenwooda1626 boy's love1810 lad's lovea1825 old man1824 1824 L. L. Cameron Hist. Marten & Two Little Scholars (new ed.) ii. 13 She tied up two or three pinks and a rose with a bit of old-man and some sweetbriar. 1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers I. i. 7 A few ‘berry’ bushes, a black-currant tree or two..with possibly a rose-tree, and ‘old man’ growing in the midst. a1917 E. Thomas Coll. Poems (1920) 97 Old Man, or Lad's-love—in the name there's nothing To one that knows not Lad's-love, or Old Man, The hoar-green feathery herb. 1973 F. A. Boddy Foliage Plants iv. 62 Old world charm and sentimentality can be further satisfied with the grey, feathery, aromatic leaves of Artemisia abrotanum, commonly called southernwood, lad's love or old man. 1999 Guardian 4 Dec. (Weekend Suppl.) 87/3 Have a go with..honeysuckles. Also with spiraeas, forsythia, sambucus (elder), old man or southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum). 7. Australian. A fully grown male kangaroo. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Macropodidae > kangaroo > male > large male old man1827 boomer1830 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxvi. 160 He..relates..that he has been fortunate enough to kill an old man as he came along. 1873 J. B. Stephens Black Gin 39 The ‘old man’ fleetest of the fleet. 1927 ‘S. Rudd’ Romance of Runnibede 199 While the half-growns, or ‘flyers’, were swifter than greyhounds, many of the ‘old men’ were in difficulties after spurting a few hundred yards. 1978 E. Harding A. Marshall Talking 171 I saw the kangaroos coming up from the gully..led by a big old man in front. †8. U.S. regional. A grizzly bear. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Ursidae (bear) > [noun] > genus Ursus > ursus arctos > brown or grizzly bear bruin1481 Russian bear1607 game-beara1640 white bear1791 grizzly bear1807 grizzly1808 old man1886 silver-tip1886 1886 Outing Nov. 108/1 Good boy! You've got more sand than I thought you had to tackle the old man on the open plain. 9. slang. The penis. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis weapona1000 tarsec1000 pintleOE cock?c1335 pillicock?c1335 yard1379 arrowa1382 looma1400 vergea1400 instrumentc1405 fidcocka1475 privya1500 virile member (or yard)?1541 prickc1555 tool1563 pillock1568 penis1578 codpiece1584 needle1592 bauble1593 dildo1597 nag1598 virility1598 ferret1599 rubigo?a1600 Jack1604 mentula1605 virge1608 prependent1610 flute1611 other thing1628 engine1634 manhood1640 cod1650 quillity1653 rammer1653 runnion1655 pego1663 sex1664 propagator1670 membrum virile1672 nervea1680 whore-pipe1684 Roger1689 pudding1693 handle?1731 machine1749 shaft1772 jock1790 poker1811 dickyc1815 Johnny?1833 organ1833 intromittent apparatus1836 root1846 Johnson1863 Peter1870 John Henry1874 dickc1890 dingusc1890 John Thomasc1890 old fellowc1890 Aaron's rod1891 dingle-dangle1893 middle leg1896 mole1896 pisser1896 micky1898 baby-maker1902 old man1902 pecker1902 pizzle1902 willy1905 ding-dong1906 mickey1909 pencil1916 dingbatc1920 plonkerc1920 Johna1922 whangera1922 knob1922 tube1922 ding1926 pee-pee1927 prong1927 pud1927 hose1928 whang1928 dong1930 putz1934 porkc1935 wiener1935 weenie1939 length1949 tadger1949 winkle1951 dinger1953 winky1954 dork1961 virilia1962 rig1964 wee-wee1964 Percy1965 meat tool1966 chopper1967 schlong1967 swipe1967 chode1968 trouser snake1968 ding-a-ling1969 dipstick1970 tonk1970 noonies1972 salami1977 monkey1978 langer1983 wanker1987 1902 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang V. 99/1 Old man,..the penis. 1968 R. Lait Chance to Kill xxii. 139 There was David getting out of bed in his shirt, his old man hanging out. 1986 T. Barling Smoke vii. 134 Pimlico broke off to watch the girls on the stage... ‘I could use some of that, Chas. My old man's nudging my collar-stud.’ 2001 Arena Aug. 152/4 She once knocked on the Ig's hotel room door; he answered it ‘completely naked, except for a large bath towel..that he was draping over his old man’. Phrases P1. old man's darling n. a younger (sexual) partner or wife of an elderly man. Frequently in proverbial phrases. ΚΠ 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. Iiii^v It ys better to be An olde mans derlyng, then a yong mans werlyng. 1697 E. Ravenscroft Anatomist III. i. 27 O Madam, you know not what a fine thing it is to be an old Man's darling. 1738 J. Swift Polite Conversat. 45 It is better to be an old Man's Darling, than a young Man's Warling. 1805 T. E. Hook Soldier's Return i. ii To pass my life A happy wife, Make me an old man's darling. 1878 H. J. Byron Partners for Life ii. 17 Never mind, sir. Better be an old man's darling, than a young man's slave. 1958 G. Bellairs Corpse at Carnival (1964) ix. 123 She's little more than a kid and he was sixty—I don't like old men's darlings. 1976 L. Black Healthy Way to Die ii. 14 The wife..was younger... It was obvious that her husband doted. The old man's darling. 1995 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 29 Oct. 37 I'd rather be an old man's darling than a young man's slave. P2. old man eloquent n. (originally, in Milton) Isocrates (436–338 b.c.), an Athenian orator who killed himself in despair after the defeat of Greece at Chaeronea; (later) (gen., in echoes of Milton) a man of great eloquence; spec. (U.S. historical) John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), sixth U.S. President, 1825–9. ΚΠ 1645 J. Milton Sonnet x, in Poems 51 As that dishonest victory At Chæronéa,..Kil'd with report that Old man eloquent. 1795 W. Gifford Baviad & Mæviad (1827) 83 We roved..o'er Troy's devoted shores, Or follow'd, while he sought his native soil, ‘That old man eloquent’, from toil to toil. 1827 J. Mitford Sacred Specimens p. xi That old man eloquent, Whose Song made Scio's rocks relent. a1843 H. Ware Our Societies Authors in Misc. Writings (1846) I. 255 That true ‘old man eloquent’,—Adams,—in age Filling up the strong lines of the Lecturer's page. 1848 Congress. Globe 24 Feb. 388 Let not the grave of the old man eloquent be desecrated by unfriendly remembrances. 1862 W. C. Bennett Poems (new ed.) 500 You have look'd on Landor and have heard His agèd lips utter Miltonic thought... O, old man eloquent, your place is sure..amid thought's sceptred kings. 1901 L. Morris Harvest-tide 147 Thou livest still, Brave soul, undaunted will. Thou silvery tongue, thou old man eloquent. 1908 E. C. Stedman Poems 465 Give me to die unwitting of the day,..as that old man eloquent made way From Earth, a nation's conclave hushed anear. 1956 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 22 522 The most important..phase of Adams' ‘Second Career’ is his crusade for freedom, liberty, and human rights in the House of Representatives. Here he won..the proud title of ‘Old Man Eloquent’. 2002 Hill (Nexis) 10 Apr. 25 Adams became known as ‘Old Man Eloquent’ in the House for his fight against slavery. P3. old man of the sea n. (in the story of Sinbad the Sailor in the Arabian Nights) the sea-god who forced Sinbad to carry him on his shoulders for many days and nights until he was thwarted by being made so drunk that he toppled off; frequently as the type of a person whom one cannot get rid of, or a troublesome burden or task. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > encumberment > that which or one who > hard to get rid of bur1600 old man of the sea1712 Old Man of the Mountain1841 albatross1883 1712 tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. (ed. 2) III. lxxxiv. 57 You fell say they into the Hands of the old Man of the Sea, and are the first that ever escap'd strangling by him. 1809 W. Scott Let. 7 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1837) II. vii. 252 Such odious deceivers are these invalids. Mine reminds me of Sinbad's Old Man of the Sea, and will certainly throttle me if I can't somehow dismount him. 1850 C. M. Yonge Henrietta's Wish viii. 112 Uncle Roger has got hold of him, and he is as bad as the old man of the sea. 1899 Strand Mag. Mar. 308/1 When a man once gets a Cavalanci and plays to it, it sticks to him like the Old Man of the Sea. 1927 Times 22 July 15/4 The bad habit into which we slip almost unconsciously fixes itself about our necks as firmly as any Old Man of the Sea. 1965 N. Freeling Criminal Conversat. ii. xx. 186 I am tired. I find you like the Old Man of the Sea. 1991 W. Beechey Reluctant Samaritan (BNC) 4 She fastened on to the person whose house it was like the Old Man of the Sea in ‘Sinbad the Sailor’. P4. old man's milk n. (also old men's milk) Scottish a drink resembling eggnog, usually made with brandy, eggs, sugar, and (sometimes) cream. ΚΠ 1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. 42 A little brandy, water, sugar, and yolks of eggs, beat up together; which I think they call Old man's milk. 1793 Aberdeen Bk.-lover IV. iii. 64 We drink ‘Old Men's Milk’; it is a perfect remedy. 1814 C. I. Johnstone Saxon & Gaël II. 78 Flora made me a bowl of ould man's milk, but nothing would bring me round. 1929 F. M. McNeill Sc. Kitchen 232 Auld man's milk... Cream, rum, whisky, or brandy, eggs, nutmeg or lemon zest... This morning dram is the same as the egg-nogg of America. 1995 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 23 Dec. 17 Other drinks which visitors..may sample are mulled wine and Old Man's Milk. The latter turns out to be more appetising than its name suggests, made as it is from a pint of single cream, a quarter-of-a-pint of brandy, sugar, and egg yolk. P5. U.S. slang. so's your old man: (as a retort) expressing disagreement with or indifference to a previous statement, insult, etc., or derision towards the speaker. ΚΠ 1925 P. Kearney Man's Man i. ii. 51 Mabel: I wanna drink... Le's dance... Hazel: So's your old man. 1929 E. L. Rice Street Scene ii. 139 Rose. You can't go to school looking like a little street loafer. Willie. Aw, you gimme a pain in de——... Rose. There! Now you look very nice. Willie. So's your old man! 1950 B. Schulberg Disenchanted xii. 178 There were righteous accusations and angry words... ‘Aw—so's your old man,’ Manley was saying. 1989 S. Fish Doing what comes Naturally xx. 484 An outrageous assertion that flies in the face of common sense, the equivalent in debate of ‘so's your old man’. 2000 N.Y. Times 12 Nov. iv. 6/4 ‘The so-called American democracy is giving other democracies, not as mature, some U.S. precedents to cite.’ Sure, and so's your old man. Compounds C1. † old-man-house n. [after Dutch oudemannenhuis (late 17th cent. as oude mannenhuys, now rare)] Obsolete a hospital for old men. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the old old-man-housea1661 old-woman-housea1661 a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 49 Here [sc. at Haarlem] is a most dainty curious old-man-house. old man snapper n. (also old man schnapper) Australian a squirefish, Chrysophrys auratus, that is large and mature. ΚΠ 1882 J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish & Fisheries New S. Wales (caption) An ‘old man schnapper’. 1965 Austral. Encycl. VIII. 169 Full-grown specimens develop a large bony protuberance on the nape, and a peculiar flabby and fleshy nose, which produces a somewhat human appearance and has earned for them the name of old-man snapper. 1974 J. M. Thomson Fish Ocean & Shore 126 A squire becomes a snapper at about one and a half kilos and thereafter matures to the old man snapper stage which may reach eighteen kilos. C2. With old man's in plant names. † old man's eyebrow n. Obsolete rare the sundew Drosera binata of Australia and New Zealand. ΚΠ 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 809/1 Old-man's eyebrow, Drosera binata. † old man's head n. Obsolete (a) a variety of dianthus; (b) the old man cactus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pinks or carnations gillyflower1517 carnation1538 clove gillyflower1538 incarnation1538 William1538 pink1566 John1572 Indian eye1573 sops-in-wine1573 sweet John1573 sweet-william1573 tuft gillyflower1573 Colmenier1578 small honesty1578 tol-me-neer1578 London tuft1597 maidenly pink1597 mountain pink1597 clove-carnation1605 musk-gillyflower1607 London pride1629 pride of London1629 maiden pink1650 Indian pink1664 Spanish pink1664 pheasant's eye pink1718 flake1727 flame1727 picotee1727 old man's head1731 painted lady1731 piquet1731 China-pink1736 clove1746 wild pink1753 lime-wort1777 matted thrift1792 clove-pink1837 Cheddar Pink1843 Dianthus1849 bunch pink1857 perpetual-flowering carnation1861 cliff pink1863 meadow pink1866 musk carnation1866 Jack1873 wax-pink1891 Malmaison1892 grenadin1904 the world > plants > particular plants > cactus and allies > [noun] > other cacti hedgehog thistle1597 Opuntia1601 mescal1709 Barbados gooseberry1756 night-flowering cereus1789 vygebosch1795 night-blooming cereus1799 rhipsalis1819 pigface1830 window plant1838 old man cactus1845 cholla1846 fish-hook cactus1846 spleenwort1846 epiphyllum1858 old man's head1858 rainbow cactus1860 green snake1864 torchwood1866 queen of the night1870 vingerpol1875 nipple cactus1876 niggerhead1877 rat's tail cactus1878 rat-tail cactus1878 Christmas cactus1880 barrel cactus1881 peyote1885 mistletoe cactus1889 schlumbergera1898 pincushion1940 opuntioid1944 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Caryophyllus The varieties of these [pinks] are, the Damask Pink, White Shock, Scarlet, Pheasant's-ey'd Pink; of which there are great varieties, both with single and double flowers, Old Man's Head, Painted Lady, with several others. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Old Man's Head, Dianthus. 1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 63 Old man's head. 1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 341 Another curious species of this genus is what is popularly termed The Old Man's Head (Cereus senilis). † old man's mustard n. English regional Obsolete the common Eurasian yarrow, Achillea millefolium. ΚΠ 1880 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Old Man's Mustard, Achillea Millefolium, L.—Linc. (Bottesford). C3. Australian, New Zealand, and South African slang. attributive. Designating a thing, esp. an animal or plant, that is especially large or significant. Cf. sense 7 and old man saltbush n. ΚΠ 1834 G. Bennett Wanderings New S. Wales I. xv. 286 Many persons when alone are afraid to face a large ‘old man’ Kangaroo. 1845 R. Howitt Impressions Austral. Felix 233 I stared at a man one day for saying that a certain allotment of land was ‘an old man allotment’: he meant a large allotment, the old-man kangaroo being the largest kangaroo. 1887 D. Macdonald Gum Boughs 7 Who that has ridden across the Old Man Plain. 1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xv. 199 Two 'underd ole-man rats that 'ad bin glued on t'Bunyip in mortil combat. 1930 J. Devanny Bushman Burke i. ii. 17 [He] had once taken an Old Man pig with a slasher. 1934 A. Russell Tramp-royal in Wild Austral. xxix. 190 An ‘Old Man’ sand storm. Lashed up and hurried along by a forty-mile-an-hour gale. 1941 I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang xi. 82 Fifteen years may pass before an old man flood brings a miracle to the land. 1947 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. xxxi. 259 I was the owner of a large boarhound which killed a great many ‘old men’ baboons. 1953 A. Upfield Murder must Wait xviii. 157 An old-man red-gum growing close to the track. 1972 P. Newton Sheep Thief ii. 17 The homestead..was fringed with a towering belt of real oldman pines. 1989 Alasian Post (Melbourne) 4 Nov. 56/1 ‘Old man’ is also used to describe animals, including the ‘Old Man Emu’ in the song by John Williamson. C4. attributive. Preceding a noun: designating something personified as familiar, respected, or influential. Old Man River n. spec. the Mississippi. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > specific rivers > [noun] Thamesc893 Father of waters (also rivers, floods)1567 muddy1825 Old Man River1902 1897 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 423/2 A broadshouldered giant, rejoicing in the name of Old Man Trouble, stalked pompously to and fro upon the bridge.] 1902 N.Y. Times 5 Dec. (advt.) Old man Winter likely to arrive any moment. 1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor iii. 37 When Old Man Trouble comes knocking at the door. 1919 C. P. Thompson Cocktails 252 Why, being officially booked to meet Old Man Death on ground, I had kept the appointment in the air. 1927 O. Hammerstein Ol' Man River (song sheet) 5 Ol' man river, dat ol' man river, He must know sumpin', but don't say nothin'. 1930 I. Gershwin But not for Me in Compl. Lyrics (1993) 167/1 Old Man Sunshine—listen, you! Never tell me Dreams come True! 1932 Sun (Baltimore) 24 Sept. 16/3 Old Man River Sinking... The north branch of the Susquehanna river is lower than it was 112 years ago. 1937 I. Gershwin Stiff Upper Lip (song) in Lyrics on Several Occasions (1959) Pip-pip to Old Man Trouble. 1949 Nat. Hist. Nov. 427/3 At last they have succeeded in vaulting the natural barriers between the Great Lakes and Old Man River. 1976 B. Bova Multiple Man v. 55 St. Louis is a dull town... Old Man River is wide and sluggish. 1987 F. Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes 349 Of course, old man whiskey plays a role. 1991 Life 11 Mar. 67/2 Old Man Winter is blowing up another snow storm, due to hit big time later tonight. 1992 Chicago Tribune 22 Dec. iii. 1/2 That old man river, the Mississippi, is one of the natural forces that has shaped the U.S. economy. 2002 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 31 Aug. 27 Old Man Snowy is where I learnt to swim and I used to swim every day with the platypus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.eOE
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