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→Noun: It's an insult but it's not an insult? Yes it is, also because middle-aged are not to be considered really and objectively "old", so it is used unfairly, ergo it's an insult, an ageist insult, especially considering that there are also women with the same characteristics. Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
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# {{lb|en|derogatory}} An adult male, usually middle-aged or elderly, who acts in a [[lecherous]] or [[lewd]] manner. |
# {{lb|en|derogatory}} An ageist insult directed to an adult male, usually middle-aged or elderly, who acts in a [[lecherous]] or [[lewd]] manner. |
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#* {{quote-song|en|year=1969|artist=The Beatles|title=Mean Mr Mustard|album=Abbey Road|author={{w|John Lennon}}|passage=Always shouts out something obscene / Such a '''dirty old man'''}} |
#* {{quote-song|en|year=1969|artist=The Beatles|title=Mean Mr Mustard|album=Abbey Road|author={{w|John Lennon}}|passage=Always shouts out something obscene / Such a '''dirty old man'''}} |
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#* {{quote-song|en|year=1970|lyricist={{w|Alline Bullock}}|artist=Ike & Tina Turner|album=Workin’ Together |title=Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter |passage=You're nothing but a dirty, '''dirty old man''' / You do your thinking with a one-track mind}} |
#* {{quote-song|en|year=1970|lyricist={{w|Alline Bullock}}|artist=Ike & Tina Turner|album=Workin’ Together |title=Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter |passage=You're nothing but a dirty, '''dirty old man''' / You do your thinking with a one-track mind}} |
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Revision as of 15:23, 23 September 2022
English
Noun
dirty old man (plural dirty old men)
- (derogatory) An ageist insult directed to an adult male, usually middle-aged or elderly, who acts in a lecherous or lewd manner.
- 1969, John Lennon (lyrics and music), “Mean Mr Mustard”, in Abbey Road, performed by The Beatles:
- Always shouts out something obscene / Such a dirty old man
- 1970, “Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter”, in Alline Bullock (lyrics), Workin’ Together, performed by Ike & Tina Turner:
- You're nothing but a dirty, dirty old man / You do your thinking with a one-track mind
- 1974, Henry M. Dupree, The Dirty Old Man, →ISBN, page 14:
- Moving her arm up and down between them, she said in a still louder voice, "Admiral indeed! Dirty old man, if you ask me! He drove his wife to an early grave with his woman chasing. Now he's spending Nancy's money on the likes of her, that slut—that—that naked hooker.
- 1991, Robert M. Pirsig, Lila:
- If you didn't go for Lila you're some kind of prissy old prude. If you did go for her you were some kind of dirty old man.
Translations
a lecherous man
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