old-timey

comparative more old-timey · comparative old-timier · superlative most old-timey · superlative old-timiest · alternative old timey

1. USinformalReminiscent or representative of an older time.

   Near-synonyms: old-fashioned, antiquated, retro

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   For our Halloween party that year, he wove a whole aesthetic that was maximally retro. He rolled up in an old-timey car, wearing an old-timey outfit, spouting old-timey phrases. It was a magnificent performance.

   In short, the old town—the lovablest, old-timiest, easy-goingest old town that ever was—sits there by the River, hugging its traditions, and hoarding its stories, of which it has enough to make a new Thousand and One Nights.

   1895, M[ollie] E[velyn] M[oore] Davis, “Prologue. The Town and the River.”, in Under the Man-Fig, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, page 6

   One of the main charms of the Southern scene was the number of "old-timey" practices that persisted.

   1951, Margaret Cussler, Not by a Long Shot: Adventures of a Documentary Film Producer, page 51

   The former ferry, now the standby tied up at the Steilacoom dock, is the 18-car, wooden-hull Islander, even old-timier and better.

   1990, Harvey Manning, Penny Manning, “Anderson Island”, in Walks & Hikes Around Puget Sound (Footsore; 4), 2nd edition, Seattle, Wash.: The Mountaineers, →ISBN, “Islands in the South Sound” section, page 158

   Whereas some of the potters making unglazed gardenware have expanded their production, others now also make some "old-timey" utilitarian glazed stoneware.

   1994, Nancy Sweezy, Raised in Clay: The Southern Pottery Tradition, page 274

   Synonyms: old-timely, old-fashioned, antiquated, retro