old fart
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9.7
- noun
- /oʊld fɑrt/
- Slang
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carcamal
- My grandfather is such an old fart; he refuses to use a smartphone.
- crazy old fart
- fat old fart
- just an old fart
We are still friends to this day, even though we're both old farts and we have lunch at least once a year.
- We are still friends to this day, even though we're both old farts and we have lunch at least once a year.
- So next Thursday when the president delivers the State of the Union, I say he should let his old fart flag fly.
- And I think Tiger old farts trying to seem like they well, I know, I think I don't necessarily think so.
Examples
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Why would she want to waste her time with an old fart?
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I'm 72 and don't think I'm an outlier in the "old farts" division of this discussion.
Blog text (21) -
At least I look better than that old fart up there, no?
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Where is that old fart?
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Not bad for an old fart.
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No, I won't let the old fart anywhere near you.
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You really are a cranky old fart, you know that?
Fiction book (1998) -
Aw, he's some old fart holy man who lives in the hills out West.
Fiction book (1993) -
As you can see by my birthdate, I'm an old fart, and any music after the Beatles
Blog text (26) -
You're becoming a sentimental old fart, ain't you?
Synonyms
8
8.8
A joking, slightly rude name for an old man
4
8.4
A man who is elderly, a bit strange, and often grumpy
3
7.6
A person who is clearly past middle age
Antonyms
How Insulting
- Slang
17
9.7
- Informal
15
9.5
- Informal
4
8.4
175
1.0
39
5.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
old + fart
Although 'old' clearly means elderly and 'fart' has a literal meaning (flatulence) and can be a rude label, the idiomatic sense 'an older, out-of-touch person' is not a predictable composition of those meanings. This slang usage is derogatory and non-compositional, so a B1 learner who only knows the constituents would likely not derive the intended meaning.
Etymology
Old fart comes from putting old together with the rude word fart, which people used to call someone dull or annoying; one popular story says the crude image made the phrase stick. So it now means 'an older person who is out of touch or set in their ways'.