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Tips from 1870 | Usage: The old man. The use of such words as dad, daddy, mam, mammy, the old man, the old woman, when applied to parents, not only indicates a lack of refinement, but shows positive disrespect. The words pap, pappy, governor, etc., are also objectionable. After the first lispings of childhood the words papa and mamma, properly accented, should be insisted upon by parents, and at the age of twelve or fifteen the words father and mother should be substituted and ever after used, as showing a proper respect on the part of children. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Crosswords: THE OLD MAN |
| English words defined with "THE OLD MAN": At sea ♦ kick about, kick around, knock about ♦ To speak for Buncombe. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "THE OLD MAN": Assassins ♦ Dilberted ♦ Hassan-Ben-Sabah ♦ LAOCOON ♦ New Man ♦ Old Man of the Sea ♦ Yue-Laou. (references) |
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Screenplays | One day, I'm a sophomore in high school, I bring home a report card, it's almost all A's so I go to the old man, ask him if I can take the car out as sort of a victory drive. (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass) I think this is what happened: the old man had heard the fight between the boy and his father a few hours earlier. (12 Angry Men; writing credit: Reginald Rose) Come on Jay the old man ain't worth a bullet. (The Shootist; writing credit: Scott Hale) The old man thinks he's in love with his daughter. (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; writing credit: Tom Stoppard;) The old man was right. (The Magnificent Seven; writing credit: William Roberts; Walter Newman) | |
Lyrics | Just like the old man in (Don't Stand So Close To Me; performing artist: The Police) | |
Clever | The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The old man and death. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The old man and the sea. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Spring pastimes. Making it easy for the old man. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sinbad and the Old Man of the Sea. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Profile Lake and the Old Man of the Mountain, Franconia Notch, White Mountains. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Denis Diderot | The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. |
Samuel Johnson | Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore. |
William Shakespeare | Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | The old man tried another listener. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | After a short period of blank astonishment, in which the old man with the pipe had joined them, they all three burst into a laugh. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The old man, on the other hand, had brought himself nearer to her level, or perhaps below it, by the revenge which he had stooped for. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The old man was caught between the wheels. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | All serene, Simon, said the old man tranquilly. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | If the woman likes it we can screw the old man. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia. |
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| Language | Translations for "THE OLD MAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Finnish | isäukko (dad). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ethay olday anmay koca (feller, fellow, goodman, hubby, husband, old man, spouse), kaptan (captain, master, old man, shipmaster, skip, skipper), baba (begetter, dad, daddy, father, goodman, governor, guv, guvnor, old man, pa, Papa, pater, Pere, pop, senior, sire, the governor). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 43, Verse 26 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Eishlqen de iwshf eiV thn oikian kai proshnegkan autw ta dwra a eicon en taiV cersin autwn eiV ton oikon kai prosekunhsan autw epi proswpon epi thn ghn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Igitur ingressus est Ioseph domum suam obtuleruntque ei munera tenentes in manibus et adoraverunt proni in terram |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thanne Joseph cam into his hows, and thei holdynge yiftis in her hondis, offerden to hym, and lowtiden bowid into the erthe. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | When Ioseph came home they brought the present in to the house to him which they had in their handes ad fell flat on the grounde befor him. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he said, How are you? is your father well, the old man of whom you were talking to me? is he still living? |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 43, Verse 26 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa miabut na si Jose sa balay, ug ilang gidala kaniya sa sulod sa balay ang gasa nga diha sa ilang kamot, ug mingyukbo sila kaniya ngadto sa yuta. |
| Croatian | Kad je Josip došao u kuæu, dadu mu darove koje su sa sobom donijeli i do zemlje mu se poklone. |
| Danish | Han hilste på dem og spurgte: "Går det eders gamle Fader vel, ham, I talte om? Lever han endnu?" |
| Dutch | Als nu Jozef te huis gekomen was, zo brachten zij hem het geschenk, hetwelk in hun hand was, in het huis, en zij bogen zich voor hem ter aarde. |
| Finnish | Kun Joosef oli tullut kotiin, veivät he hänelle huoneeseen lahjat, jotka heillä oli mukanaan, ja kumartuivat maahan hänen edessänsä. |
| French | Quand Joseph fut arrivé à la maison, ils lui offrirent le présent qu`ils avaient apporté, et ils se prosternèrent en terre devant lui. |
| German | Da nun Joseph zum Hause einging, brachten sie ihm ins Haus das Geschenk in ihren Händen und fielen vor ihm nieder zur Erde. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Lè Jozèf antre lakay li, yo pote kado yo ba li, yo bese tèt yo jouk atè devan li. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ketika Yusuf sampai di rumah, mereka memberikan hadiah-hadiah itu kepada Yusuf sambil sujud kepadanya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah sudah Yusuf pulang, maka dibawa oleh mereka itu akan persembahan yang di tangannya kepadanya dalam rumah, lalu sujudlah mereka itu di hadapannya sampai ke bumi. |
| Maori | ¶ A, i te taenga mai o Hohepa ki te whare, ka kawea e ratou ki a ia te hakari a o ratou ringa ki te whare, a ka piko ki a ia ki te whenua. |
| Norwegian | Men han spurte dem om det gikk dem vel, og han sa: GÃ¥r det eders far vel, den gamle som I talte om? Lever han ennu? |
| Portuguese | Quando José chegou em casa, trouxeram-lhe ali o presente que guardavam junto de si; e inclinaram-se a ele até a terra. |
| Rumanian | Cknd a ajuns Iosif acasq, i-au dat darul, pe care i -l aduseserq, wi s`au aruncat cu faya la pqmknt knaintea lui. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-l-m-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: homeland, hotelman, methadon, methanol. | |
-2 letters: anethol, ethanol, loathed, lomenta, manhole, mantled, menthol, omental, taloned, telamon. | |
-3 letters: almond, anthem, atoned, daemon, daleth, dalton, dental, dolman, dolmen, donate, enhalo, etalon, haloed, halted, hamlet, handle, hanted, hantle, hetman, holden, hondle, lamedh, lament, lathed, loamed, loaned, loathe, loment, malted, mantel, mantle, melton, mental, method, moaned, moated, molted. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-l-m-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: motherland. | |
+2 letters: mentholated, motherlands. | |
+3 letters: endothelioma. | |
+4 letters: endolymphatic, endotheliomas, grandmotherly. | |
+5 letters: endotheliomata, flannelmouthed, methodicalness. | |
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