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old lady

NOUN
an old woman
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NOUN
a wife or female lover
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Read on: Want to be a rich old lady?

From MarketWatch • Jan. 16, 2026

To this, Oliver sarcastically replies, “No one needs your 17th-century old lady food and outdated social rules.”

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025

"A taxi driver said: 'look, your old lady is coming up there.' I told her: 'don't move from there, I'm jumping in right now.' ... I swam out that way."

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

"We try our best but if there's no beds what can we really do? We just make the old lady as comfortable as she can, just make sure that she's okay. But there's no beds."

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025

It's funny; I still so often think of her as a girl, but today she looks like an old lady to me.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon