owld

owld (comparative owlder, superlative owldest)

1. Eye dialect spelling of old.
   • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “Irons in the Fire. Opes Strepitumque.”, in The Wrecker, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 115:

     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.

   • 1880, [George] Bernard Shaw, chapter X, in The Irrational Knot [...] Being the Second Novel of His Nonage, London: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1905, →OCLC, page 185:

     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.

   • 1917, Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages‎:

     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."

• Wold, dowl, lowd, wold