boy vs old man

boy

noun
  • A son of any age. 

  • A male of any age, particularly one rather younger than the speaker. 

  • A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee 

  • A younger such worker. 

  • A non-white male servant regardless of age, particularly as a form of address. 

  • Any non-white male, regardless of age. 

  • A male child or adolescent, as distinguished from infants or adults. 

  • A male (tree, gene, etc). 

  • A young male. 

  • A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank. 

  • Heroin. 

  • A male animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male dog. 

verb
  • To act as a boy (in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage). 

intj
  • Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing. 

old man

noun
  • One's father. 

  • The state of human nature without the spiritual transformation brought about by redemption through Jesus Christ. 

  • Synonym of southernwood 

  • An elderly man. 

  • A husband, or male significant other, irrespective of age. 

  • Used attributively to denote something of exceptional size, strength, age etc. 

  • A unit's commanding officer, or the commander of a naval vessel, irrespective of age. 

  • One's male employer, irrespective of age. 

How often have the words boy and old man occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )