Definition of Day-old

1. Adjective. Not fresh today. "Day-old bread is cheaper than fresh"

Similar to: Stale

Lexicographical Neighbors of Day-old

dawtie
dawties
dawting
dawts
day
day-after-day
day-and-night
day-blind
day-blindness
day-coal
day-ee
day-net
day-nets
day-nighter
day-old (current term)
day-peep
day-star
day-time
day-to-day
day-trade
day-trader
day-trading
day-tripper
day-trippers
day after
day after day
day after tomorrow
day and age
day and night

Literary usage of Day-old

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... DAY, OLD AGE AND NIGHT YOUTH, large, lusty, loving — youth full of grace, force, fascination, Do you kuow that Old ..."

2. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"Y YOUTH, DAY, OLD AGE AND NIGHT. OUTH, large, lusty, loving—youth full of grace, force, fascination, Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"A comparison of 8- to 10-day-old rat uteri taken from intact and ... Price (9) has also observed that castration of 1-day- old rats resulted in no ..."

4. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"The development of these studies was the investigation into the effect of spiramycin treatment on experimental mycoplasmosis in day-old chicks and turkey ..."

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