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fogyish collapse: (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life"

dodo collapse: extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons; someone whose style is out of fashion

dotard collapse: an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect

old maid collapse: a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid'); the loser in a game of old maid

dad collapse: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk

blimp collapse: a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon

matriarch collapse: a female head of a family or tribe; a feisty older woman with a big bosom (as drawn in cartoons)

Methuselah collapse: (Old Testament) a patriarch (grandfather of Noah) who is said to have lived 969 years

fossil collapse: the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil; characteristic of a fossil

antediluvian collapse: any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge; so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"; of or relating to the period before the biblical flood; "antediluvian man"

starets collapse: a religious adviser (not necessarily a priest) in the Eastern Orthodox Church

old man collapse: an informal term for your father; a man who is very old; (slang) boss

stodgy collapse: excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party"; heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"

conservative collapse: a person who has conservative ideas or opinions; resistant to change; opposed to liberal reforms

reactionary collapse: an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism; extremely conservative

patriarch collapse: a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself; any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race; the male head of family or tribe; title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)

antique collapse: any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity; out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas"; made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age; "the beautiful antique French furniture"; give an antique appearance to; "antique furniture"; shop for antiques; "We went antiquing on Saturday"

pop collapse: a sharp explosive sound as from a gunshot or drawing a cork; a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring; "in New England they call sodas tonics"; like a pop or with a pop; "everything went pop"; burst open with a sharp, explosive sound; "The balloon popped"; "This popcorn pops quickly in the microwave oven"; cause to burst with a loud, explosive sound; "The child popped the balloon"; fire a weapon with a loud explosive noise; "The soldiers were popping"; take drugs, especially orally; "The man charged with murder popped a valium to calm his nerves"; hit or strike; "He popped me on the head"; hit a pop-fly; "He popped out to shortstop"; release suddenly; "pop the clutch"; put or thrust suddenly and forcefully; "pop the pizza into the microwave oven"; "He popped the petit-four into his mouth"; make a sharp explosive noise; "The cork of the champagne bottle popped"; cause to make a sharp explosive sound; "He popped the champagne bottle"

stuffy collapse: affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction; "a stuffy feeling in my chest"

elder collapse: a person who is older than you are; any of various church officers; any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit; used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son; "Bill Adams, Sr."

fuss collapse: an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother"; worry unnecessarily or excessively; "don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now"

ruin collapse: a ruined building; "they explored several Roman ruins"; an event that results in destruction; an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction; "you have brought ruin on this entire family"; fall into ruin; reduce to ruins; "The country lay ruined after the war"; destroy or cause to fail; "This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election"

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