Old Man
See also: old man, old-man, oldman, and Oldman
English
Proper noun
Old Man
- 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.
- 1919, The American Produce Review, Vol. 47, p. 773: