ooman

I axed har eff she'd leff the 'ooman who'd made har husban's fortun, who war the muther ov his chil'ren, who fur twenty yar, hed nussed him in sickness, an' cheered him in healtf; ef shede let _thet 'ooman_, bee auckyund off ter th' hi'est bider.

Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

My good young 'ooman' -- to the servant-girl -- 'p'raps somebody would like to try a new-laid egg or two, not biled too hard.

Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841

When he got out of his own immediate neighbourhood, he began to ask whether 'a tall, dark, young man, and a tall, pale, young 'ooman' had been seen.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

A 'ooman's the devil; I'd ruther trade with twenty men than one' ooman, I swar. '

The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

When de Cap'n come thu dis ere ole 'ooman's gwine straight home ter

A slaveholder's daughter, 1900

He wouldn 'marry no yuther' ooman 'tel he foun' out 'bout me.

The Wife of his Youth 1898

She called her maid her "'ooman;" instead of sleeping at a place, she "lay" there, and when she consulted the doctor she spoke of having "used the 'potticary."

Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886

That old 'ooman's drying hersen up wi' crying about you.

A Life's Eclipse George Manville Fenn 1870

Court to exhibit his sixpence to his mother, and to announce to all whom it might concern, that "the sea-capp'n had run his jib-boom slap through the old 'ooman's cabin-door."

Rivers of Ice 1859

"'Taint all _my_ property, lad," replied the Captain, with a good-humoured nod, "most of it is a poor old 'ooman's belongings."

Rivers of Ice 1859