auld-farrant

You never heard sic a cratur for thae auld-farrant sayin's; an 'Mysie's no' far ahent.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

The auld-farrant, scraichin ', obstinate grey gander.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

But na; it seems he was owre auld-farrant for the like of that.

The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

Commons -- an 'he to be dead at last! the warld'll seem quite unco without his auld-farrant phizog on the streets.

Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

Ochiltree, is very skeely and auld-farrant about mony things, as the diseases of cows and horse, and sic like, and I am sure be disna want to be at Tannonburgh the day for naething, since he insists on't this gate; and, if your leddyship pleases, I'll drive him there in the taxed-cart in an hour's time.

The Antiquary 1845

I found that to my cost in this matter; for, cheap as the coat and waistcoat seemed which I had bought from the auld-farrant Welsh flunkie with the peaked hat and the pigtail, I made no great shakes of them after all.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

Having told him that I was myself, instead of a better; and having asked him to step in, that I might have a glimpse of his face at the candle, I saw that he was a stranger, dressed in a droll auld-farrant green livery-coat, faced with white.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

I found that to my cost in this matter; for, cheap as the coat and waistcoat seemed which I had bought from the auld-farrant Welsh flunkie with the peaked hat and the pigtail, I made no great shakes of them after all.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

Having told him that I was myself, instead of a better; and having asked him to step in, that I might have a glimpse of his face at the candle, I saw that he was a stranger, dressed in a droll auld-farrant green livery - coat, faced with white.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

Sad, too, to the Sage the thought of leaving his first-born as yet unborn -- or if born, haply an elfish Creature with a precocious countenance, looking as if he had begun life with borrowing ten years at least from his own father -- auld-farrant as a Fairy, and gash as the Last of the Lairds.

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819