Oldling

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who is old or advanced in years; elder.

    "For the oldlings like the younglings, And they cannot say them "nay," And the oldlings and the younglings Keep God's full-grown man away […]"

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"For the oldlings like the younglings, And they cannot say them "nay," And the oldlings and the younglings Keep God's full-grown man away […]"

Etymology

From old + -ling. Compare youngling.

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