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old man noun An older man in the community (used attributively, as a term of respect, usually with a man’s full name and sometimes prefaced by the).

1863 Zimmerman Letters (Jan 10) if you and the old mans folks would Send me and Jackson a box a piece it it would not take so powerfull long. 1915 Dingus Word-list VA 186 = used without sense of disrespect. 1939 Hall Coll (Smokemont NC) the old man Tom Huskey rared up with his rifle and plugged him [=a bear] by the hind shoulder.  1973 GSMNP-4:2 Old man Dude Hannah they called him. Dude and Ross Hannah lived in that section you are speaking about ... The old man Bud Messer lived right in close to where you are speaking about, in that section in there. 1997 Dante OHP-53 I would go up and get groceries there and walk from where we lived over there up there and get stuff for my mother, and the old man Con Buttrey run that store.