Adjective: old-timey
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | old-timier |
| Superlative | old-timiest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more old-timey |
| Superlative | most old-timey |
Sample Sentences
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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.
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
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That white man buys up all this old-timey stuff he can get his hands on, all through this country. The very tools I lived by, he sells em for antiques. [2000, Nate Shaw, Theodore Rosengarten, All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, page 524:]
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But what’s a “Hawkeye” or a “Hoosier”? Indian tribes? Kinds of bird, maybe? This handy guide will help you decipher the seven oddest, old-timiest state nicknames. [2014, Ken Jennings, “Seventh Period”, in Maps and Geography (Ken Jennings’ Junior Genius Guides), New York, N.Y.: Little Simon, page 140:]
Adjectives inflected like old-timey
old-timey,
nippley,
drudgey,
tomatoey,
cringey,
dudey,
dykey,
fluey,
gamey,
wifey,
ropey,
rapey,
echoey,
pricey,
tonguey,
spikey,
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English old
3. Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-
4. Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-
5. Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
6. Proto-Indo-European *dh₂i-mon-
7. Proto-Germanic *tīmô
8. Proto-West Germanic *tīmō
9. Old English tīma
10. Middle English tyme
11. English time
12. English old-time
13. English -y
14. English old-timey
15. From old-time + -y.