Meaning of old-timely | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of old-timey.

Examples

“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.”

“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?”

““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), […]”

“Members After Hours at Hoggatt School. 1860s theme with watermelon, crumb cake and other old-timely touches.”

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