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ˈold-timey, a.
Also old-timy.
[f. old-time a. + -y1.]
Old-fashioned in character; (nostalgically or sentimentally) recalling the past.
1850A. J. Downing in Horticulturist V. 265 The terraced garden, too, is quaint and ‘old-timey’. 1879F. R. Stockton Rudder Grange xvii. 206 Things that were apparently so ‘old-timey’..that David Dutton did not care to take them with him. 1892Kipling & Balestier Naulahka ix. 94 The venerable..institution of matrimony is still in use here... The ‘Doll's House’ glanced right off this blessed old-timey country. 1921O. W. Holmes in Holmes-Laski Lett. (1953) I. 372, I must have mentioned Bryce's two nights with us I think—very pleasant and old timey. 1935‘L. Ford’ Burn Forever 28 They're real old-timey over at the Curriers. 1936J. dos Passos Big Money 221 Look how oldtimy the street looks. 1971E. Bullins in W. King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 62 Every year in August the Mary's Shore colored community gave an ole timey camp meetin'. 1973― Theme is Blackness 103 Well, man, I don't want to hear nothin' 'bout some fat ole-timey black bitch that I'm supposed to be like. 1974Columbia (S. Carolina) Record 24 Apr. 14-B/4 Beds have old timey coverlets and primitive barn markings form popular wall plaques. 1975Publishers Weekly 17 Nov. 98/3 Large format and illustration with old-timey black-and-white drawings. |