oldsome

English

Etymology

From old +‎ -some.

Adjective

oldsome (comparative more oldsome, superlative most oldsome)

1. Characterised or marked by age.
   • 1927, The Contemporary Review, volume 131, page 121:

     It almost makes an oldsome woman like me want to dance again as I danced long ago when we were young.

   • 1928, Maristan Chapman, The Happy Mountain, page 220:

     They took the path that surrounded the Bald, and started to get to the meeting house—not the one on Cragg Hill, but the oldsome barn that used to be Big Gully School.