owld

owld (comparative owlder, superlative owldest)

1. Eye dialect spelling of old.
   • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne, The Wrecker‎:

     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.

   • 1905, George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot‎:

     Woy, owld Lind sends me in to Conly to cam in to him into the board-room. '

   • 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