单词 | old-timer |
释义 | old-timern. 1. A person with long experience of some place or position; an elderly person. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > [noun] > old and experienced person veteran1565 old standard1588 old soaker1590 oldie1799 old-timer1860 the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > old-fashionedness > one who is old fashioned mumpsimus1573 fogram1760 fogey1792 fogramite1813 frump1817 primitist1818 foist1820 Rip Van Winkle1833 foozle1860 old-timer1860 mossyback1865 mossback1873 dugout1912 pterodactyl1921 unhip1936 fud1942 square1944 primitivist1975 retread1982 1860 Music & Drama 13 ix. 14 Old timers unanimously declared that in the new-comer had indeed arisen another Tausig. 1882 Harper's Mag. Dec. 47/1 A few swarthy, lantern-jawed old-timers hang about the corners. 1928 Daily Mail 25 July 2/3 Many types are represented. There is..the old-timer, who knows more about Oxford than the inhabitants of the city themselves. 1939 Sun (Baltimore) 4 Apr. 12/7 Remarks about this type of vessel seem to have struck a responsive chord in the breasts of several old-timers. 1946 S. T. Felstead Stars who made Halls xviii. 184 He would have none of the old-timers; they must all be the younger generation. 1966 Listener 10 Mar. 344/2 I am not sure..that some old-timers might not welcome a return to the traditional style of the Promenade Concerts. 1991 M. Mantle My Favourite Summer ii. 25 Hopp was a genuine old-timer. A throwback. To me, he seemed about as old as my father. 2000 Denver Post 15 Oct. a1/3 The old-timers here tell legends of lost gold, of forgotten mines and abandoned ‘ghost camps’ that no one has seen in years. 2. An old or old-fashioned thing; a vehicle, tool, etc., which has been in service for a long time. ΚΠ 1888 Overland Monthly Dec. 657/1 Now this was the manner of the building of the chimney, 'Tis a good old-timer, As you, friend John, will own, Old man Vail cut the stone. 1894 Outing 24 34/1 A cutter of some six to eight tons..a regular old-timer. 1929 New Yorker 4 May 44/2 The big walnut tree that was an old-timer even in her day. 1988 Air Display Dec. 23/3 Another old-timer was the Dakota, exhibited by Specialized Aircraft. 2002 Entertainm. Weekly 18 Jan. 82/1 Joining the fray are some battle-tested old-timers, including..just about every bit-mappy, low-res game-box from the '70s and '80s. CompoundsWith old-timer's. old-timer's disease n. [punningly after Alzheimer n.] humorous or depreciative = Alzheimer's disease n. at Alzheimer n. 1. ΚΠ 1983 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 14 Feb. I don't intend to ever get old-timers disease. 2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 233 Back home, Mum's shuffling around the kitchen like someone with Oldtimer's Disease. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1860 |
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