Inf. dad, Inf. daddy, Brit. Inf. pater.
3. husband, man, spouse, mate, partner; lover, cohabitant, Fr. covivant, Fr. intime; boyfriend, Inf. steady, sweetheart.
4. Sometimes
Old Man employer, boss, Inf. boss-man, SI. the Man, manager, foreman, superintendent, supervisor, Inf. super; commanding officer, superior, commander.
5. (all used in direct address) old friend, old boy, Chiefly Brit, old chap, Inf. old pal, U.S. Inf. old buddy.
6. old stager, old hand, past master, veteran, Inf. old pro, trouper.
old-time, adj. old-fashioned, bygone, past. See - old-fashioned (defs. 1-3).
old-womanish, adj. finical, finicky, hard or difficult or impossible to please, fussy, Inf. fuss-budgety, Inf. persnickety; overparticular, overfastidious, overmetic-ulous; prim, priggish, prudish, overmodest; straitlaced, hidebound, fuddy-duddy, stiff-necked; spinster-ish, old-maidish,
old-world, adj. old, aged, antique, antiquarian, archaic, ancient; conservative, traditional, old-fashioned, outmoded, outdated; European, continental; gallant, chivalrous, courtly; formal, ceremonious, rigid, strict, hidebound,
oleaginous, adj. oil, oillike, oily, greasy, unctuous. See - oily (defs. 1-3).
oligarchy, n. diarchy, duarchy, duumvirate; triarchy, triumvirate; theocracy,
olio, n. 1. stew, ragout, salmi, salmagundi, goulash, hash, mash, fricasse, paella, bouillabaisse, U.S. chowder, olla-podrida, Sp. oll-a, (in China, India, etc.) chow-chow, U.S. SI. mulligan.
2. mishmash, hodgepodge, Brit, hotchpotch, jumble, tumble, scramble, tangle, mess, confused mess, confusion; conglomeration, pastiche, pasticcio, patchwork, farrago, gallimaufry, Chinese menu; clutter, litter, heap, mass, bunch, huddle.
3. medley, melange, potpourri, variety, mixture, SI. mixed bag, Inf. grab bag; miscellany, omnium-gatherum.
omen, n. 1. portent, sign, token, foretoken, harbinger; premonition, preindication, forewarning, foreshadowing, handwriting on the wall.
2. prognostic, prognostication, prediction, forecast, prophecy, prefigurement, augury, auspice, vaticination, divination.
3. presage, presentiment, foreknowledge; feeling, vague feeling, Inf. funny feeling, Inf. feeling in one's bones, intuition, suspicion, Inf. sneaking suspicion; anxiety, misgiving, apprehension, boding; dread, fear, ill feeling, bad feeling, chill along the spine, SI. bad vibes.
-v. 4. portend, forebode, foretoken, foreshadow, foreshow, augur, presage, presignify, preindicate; betoken, signify, mean, indicate, point to.
5. foretell, forecast, forewarn, divine, Rare. premonish,' Obs. auspicate; prognosticate, prophesy, predict, soothsay, vaticinate,
ominous, adj. 1. portentous, foreboding, bodeful, ill-boding, boding evil, ill-omened, of evil portent; inauspicious, unpropitious, unfavorable, unpromising, unfortunate, unlucky, ill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed, doomed from the start; threatening, menacing, lowering, looming, dark, black, sinister, heavy gloomy; bad, evil, malign, malignant.
2. oracular, augural, divinatory, vaticinal, mantic, sibyllic; prophetic, predictive, prognostic, foretelling, forecasting, forewarning; premonitory, significant, meaningful; preindicative, foretokening, foreshowing,