Old Man

See also: old man, old-man, oldman, and Oldman

English

Proper noun

Old Man

  1. A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Old Man Winter or Old Man River.
    • 1919, The American Produce Review, Vol. 47, p. 773:
      But it was really Old Man Concentration and his partner, Co-operation, that put across the big clean-up.
    • 2019, Thornton Burgess, Old Mother West Wind Collection, p. 471:
      Big-Horn hadn't been told whom he was to fight, and when he found that it was Old Man Coyote, he was disappointed.
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