plural of old woman

An extinct Tupian language which was spoken by the native Tupi people of Brazil.

(derogatory) An old woman who has never married; a spinster. / The Madagascar periwinkle. / The common zinnia. / An unpopped kernel in a batch of popped popcorn kernels.

(uncountable) A children's card game, sometimes played with a special deck, where the object of the game is for each player to find matches for all the cards in his hand, without being stuck with the single unmatchable card.

Alternative spelling of old-fashioned

Alternative form of old-fashioned

(idiomatic, colloquial, Britain) A person.

(idiomatic, simile, chiefly hyperbolic) Extremely old.

(US, informal) Reminiscent or representative of an older time.

The ancestor language of Middle Persian, and via it of New Persian language. Attested in Old Persian cuneiform, in the period 525 B.C.E. - 300 B.C.E..