Meanings
nounold thing (plural old things)
plural old things
- colloquialdatedAffectionate term of address for a person.
Listen, old thing. When you first met me you wanted to put me in a little flat round the corner, didn't you?
1920, Compton Mackenzie, The Vanity Girl, page 202
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old thing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/old%20thing
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “old thing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/old%20thing.
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