old-timely
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]old-timely (comparative more old-timely, superlative most old-timely)
- Synonym of old-timey.
- 1885 March 18, P. Donan, in N. Y. Sun, “Cupid in Dakota. The World’s Womanless Wonderland—A Screed from the Wild Boanerges of the Yellowstone.”, in The Waterloo Courier, volume 26, number 31 (whole 1342), Waterloo, Ia., page [6], column 3:
- Nearly every town in this greatest and grandest of the Territories is in the same deplorable fix, counting its girls over every night as carefully as old-timely ladies do their chickens or spoons, and never able, by any arithmetic, to scare up more than one to every fifty fellows.
- 1888 January 7, Burk’s Clothing House, “Down They Go!”, in Norfolk Virginian, volume XLV, number 40, Norfolk, Va., page [2], column 3:
- We dislike to mention the words, yet we must, for it sounds old-timely, and has been so much abused. GREAT REDUCTION. We like to mean what we say, and our daily aim is to stimulate confidence. So we grasp the words GREAT REDUCTION as feebly as the child in making its first effort to walk. It’s no unusual thing at this season of the year to see the words GREAT REDUCTION staring you in the face on every hand. Are they all sincere?
- 1892 September 7, “Stories of Whittier. His Winters in Boston—Quaint Comments on City Life—A Last Word.”, in Boston Evening Transcript, 63rd year, number 18,988, Boston, Mass., page 1, column 4:
- “I have seen Mr. ⸺ (a well-known name) come here and just about go down on his knees to get Mr. Whittier to speak or even to come to a banquet,” says the landlord (who is by the way an old-timely character worthy of a novelist’s pen), […]