"owld" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: owlder [comparative], owldest [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} owld (comparative owlder, superlative owldest)
  1. Eye dialect spelling of old. Tags: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Alternative form of: old
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          "ref": "1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “Irons in the Fire. Opes Strepitumque.”, in The Wrecker, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 115:",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1917, Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages:",
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