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old person noun senior citizen, senior, retired person, old age pensioner, elder, pensioner (slang) coffin-dodger (slang) elderly person, O.A.P. Brit. USAGE While not as offensive as coffin-dodger and some of the other synonyms listed here, phrases such as old man, old woman, old person, and elderly person may still cause offence. It is better to use senior citizen or senior. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| You needn't make the least apology, my dear,' said Miss Knag, smiling sweetly as she spoke; 'I dare say she is a very respectable old person, and I shall be quite--hem--quite pleased to know her. I asked him then, if this old person had made all things, why did not all things worship him? You lodge yourself of your own accord in a house with a drunken--tailor, I suppose--or something of the sort, and a little crooked antic of a child, or old person, or whatever it is, and then you talk as if you were drawn or driven there. |
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