Old Lady

Definition: Old Lady

Old Lady

Noun

1. Your own wife; "meet my old lady".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Marriage

Bridesmaid, bridesman, best man; bride, bridegroom. married man, married woman, married couple; neogamist, Benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate; husband, man, consort, baron; old man, good man; wife of one's bosom; helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife.

Crosswords: Old Lady

Will you help an old lady to her car? (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

There's still life in the old lady yet! (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, perhaps she'll die. (The Fly; writing credit: David Cronenberg and Charles Edward Pogue.)

If I had survived an old lady ass-kicking I would want to brag about it. (My Big Fat Greek Wedding; writing credit: Nia Vardalos)

Last week, Number 14 was an old lady in a wheelchair. (The Prisoner; writing credit: Dennis Marks)

Little old lady got mutilated late last night (Werewolves of London; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: LeRoy P. Marinell, Waddy Wachtel and Warren Zevon)

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (1964)

Old Lady 31 (1920)

An Old Lady of Twenty (1912)

Little Old Lady From Pasadena (performing artist: Jan and Dean)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Child Within Has Been Awakened but the Old Lady on the Outside Just Collapsed (A Cathy Collection) (reference)

• How to Become a Sweet Old Lady Instead of a Grumpy Old Grouch (reference)

• See the old lady decently (reference)

• The Grand Old Lady of Vine Street: A History of the Cincinnati Enquirer (reference)

• There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (Caldecott Honor Book) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Old Lady Of Threadneedle Street (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Lucy Gets Jack Benny's Bank Account/Little Old Lady (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• As Easy As 123 (Popsicle/The Little Old Lady From Pasedena/Drag City) (reference)

• Little Old Lady From Pasadena/Filet Of Soul [2-on-1 CD] (reference)

• Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The chas-ed "old lady" of the C.S.A. Credit: Library of Congress.

I'm not surprised to see you, snapped the old lady. Credit: Library of Congress.

Man reading letter to old lady and man across a table. Credit: Library of Congress.

Yes, she tells her mother everything : Well, I thought that the old lady was degenerating rapidly. Credit: Library of Congress.

It took the form of the greatest old lady he had ever seen. Credit: Library of Congress.

That motherly old lady on the dome. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Old Lady, York Beach, Me. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fruit jars being sterilized on old lady Graham's back fence in berry season. Near Conway, Arkansas. "We just gather and can peas, beans, berries, and sausage when we butcher the hogs in the winter. We put up seventy-five quarts of berries, sixty of beans,. Credit: Library of Congress.

An old lady hoeing her garden on her small farm near Gibbs City, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Even the stern old lady laughed at this.

Well there was one old lady, and a drunken old harridan she was surely, that paid all her attention to me.

Ma threw the door open and half pulled the struggling old lady out beside the road and into the bushes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

German

greisin (aged woman), alte Frau. (various references)

Greek 

γριά (belch, old, old woman, oldster). (various references)

Hungarian

finomkodó öreg hölgy (very proper old lady). (various references)

Pig Latin

olday adylay

Portuguese

velhinha, mulher (a bit of skirt, cummer, dona, female, jade, lady, ladylove, mate, person, petticoat, she, wife, woman), mãe (mother, mum, old woman, venter). (various references)

Russian 

Английский банк (Old Lady of Threadneedle Street). (various references)

Spanish

vieja (hag, harridan, old man, old woman, oldster). (various references)

Turkish

karı (bedfellow, broad, Dame, dutch, Jane, old woman, spouse, the old woman, wife, woman), eş (better half, coequal, companion, compeer, consort, correspondent, corresponding, counterpart, couple, doublet, duplicate, dutch, equal, fellow, helpmate, helpmeet, husband, identic, identical, iso-, lady, like, match, matching, mate, old man, old woman, one of a pair, pair, Parti, partner, placenta, spousal, spouse, the missis, the old woman, wife), anne (Ma, mam, mama, mamma, mammy, mater, maternal, maw, mom, mother, mum, mummy, old woman). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: aldol, allod, alloy, dally, dolly, loyal, oddly.

-3 letters: ally, dado, doll, dyad, lady, load, odyl, oldy, olla, yald.

-4 letters: add, ado, all, dad, dal, day, dol, lad, lay, odd, old, yod.

-5 letters: ad, al, ay, do, la, lo, od, oy, ya, yo.

+5 letters: additionally, amygdaloidal, hebdomadally.