owld

adj

1. (alt-of, pronunciation-spelling)Eye dialect spelling of old.

   “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."”