Age-old insult.Byline: Paul Paul, 1901–64, king of the Hellenes (1947–64), brother and successor of George II. He married (1938) Princess Frederika of Brunswick. During Paul's reign Greece followed a pro-Western policy, and the Cyprus question was temporarily resolved. Routledge THOUGHT police in the USA (where else?) have banned the use of terms such as "elderly" to describe old folk. Rest assured, I shall ignore these busybodies. If, like me, you've reached 65, you're so relieved to have done so that you don't give a monkey's what people call you. Or what you call them for that matter. When the leader of the Conservative Party is younger than your children any old insult in·sult n. A bodily injury, irritation, or trauma. insult Medtalk noun Any stressful stimulus which, under normal circumstances, does not affect the host organism, but which may result in morbidity, when it will do. How about "young fart"? |
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