| Summary: | old This is the common term for mushrooms, which are locally regarded as poisonous. Example: "Mom! The baby's eatin' old man's bread." This word is still a quite common in Grand Bank among people of all ages though it is slowly giving way to the proper word "mushroom." I have heard it used since childhood in Grand Bank, about 1956, One of the first times I can remember hearing it was when a friend of mine, George Price of Grand Bank, identified some mushrooms as "old man's beard" and told me they were poisonus. We were about ten years old then. [OVER] See cited quotation. DNE-cit Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used [see 'Old Man's Caps']
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