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Definition of 'owld'

English

Adjective

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  • *{{quote-book|year=1892|author=|title=The Wrecker|chapter=|edition= citation
  • |passage=A sore penny it has cost me, first and last, and by all tales, not worth an owld tobacco pipe." }}
  • *{{quote-book|year=1909|author=Leland Powers|title=Practice Book|chapter=|edition= citation
  • |passage=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. }}
  • *{{quote-book|year=1905|author=George Bernard Shaw|title=The Irrational Knot|chapter=|edition= citation
  • |passage=Woy, owld Lind sends me in to Conly to cam in to him into the board-room. ' }}
  • *{{quote-book|year=1917|author=Ernest Thompson Seton|title=Two Little Savages|chapter=|edition= citation
  • |passage=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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