Noun: old bean
| Singular | old bean |
| Plural | old beans |
Sample Sentences
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[…] it is really an uncommon piece of exaggerative imagination which we find in the description of this old bean's elaborate costume, with its pads, straps, strings […] [1876, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 37, page 238:]
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When this here old Bean told me, you could have knocked me down with a feather. [1905, H. G. Wells, Kipps, vi. §4:]
Nouns inflected like old bean
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Possibly from playful mid-word substitution of "boy" in "old boy"