ageyadj.
/ˈeɪdʒi/, U.S. /ˈeɪdʒi/ Now rare.
Of, relating to, or characterized by (old) age; aged, old.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [adjective] > old (of beings, etc.)
oldeOE
winteredeOE
oldlyOE
over-oldOE
eldernc1175
at-oldc1200
stricken on, in age, in eldec1380
oldlya1382
(well, far, etc.) stepped in age, in or into yearsc1386
ancientc1400
aged1420
well-agedc1450
ripec1480
passing oldc1485
(well) shot in years1530
old aged1535
agey1547
Ogygian1567
strucken1576
oldish1580
stricken in yearsa1586
declined1591
far1591
struck1597
Nestorian1605
overripe1605
elderly1611
eld1619
antiquated1631
enaged1631
thorough-old1639
emerita1643
grandevous1647
magnaevous1727
badgerly1753
(as) old as the hills1819
olden days1823
crusted1833
long in the tooth1841
oldened1854
mature1867
over the hill1950
1547 W. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welshe sig. G4v Hoedloc, agey.
1664 Floddan Field v. 43 Lord Scroop of Upsall the agie Knight.
1672 J. Locke Let. Oct. in J. Locke & E. Clarke Corr. (1927) 79 Those are earthly pleasures for clodpate mortals, and we agey men contemn them.
?1790 in Joe Miller's Jests (new ed.) 156 On a Tomb-stone at Fisgard in Wales... Here lies two papes as tead as nits, Whom Cot [sc. God] took hence py agey fits.
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 131 Thee, agy [1852 (ed. 5) agey] world, thee, universal Heaven.
1917 Market Growers Jrnl. 1 Jan. 16/2 The plants have already produced a large yield and are becoming rather ‘agey’.
2001 W. Cope If I don't Know 25 Why no school? cried agey Wendy to herself not loud. Why little beggars swimming into me on Friday afternoon?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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