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ˈold-time, a.
Also -times.
1. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the ancient or olden time.
1824in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1825) 495 An old-times chamber it was, sure enough. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xxii. 216, I took a Bible..and we went through the old-times service. 1888H. C. Lea Hist. Inquis. I. 422 Respect for the old-time prejudices of the Church. 1894Archæol. Jrnl. Mar. 51 A piece of old-time folk-lore.
2. a. Pertaining to or characteristic of an earlier or former time.
1870‘Mark Twain’ in Buffalo Express 1 Jan. 2/6 Conrad's color came back to his cheeks and his old-time vivacity to his eyes. 1936F. Clune Roaming round Darling xiv. 120 Whitney, old-time driver for Cobb and Co.'s coaches (later a grazier), planted here a score of fig-trees. 1975Nature 29 May 360/2 What they have is a lot of old-time researchers who are accustomed to pursuing their own interests.
b. In ballroom dancing, applied to styles of dance and music fashionable in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Also in form old(e) tyme. Also absol. as n.
1887E. Scott Grace & Folly iv. 64 It may not be uninteresting to enquire a little into the nature of some of the old-time dances. 1929Radio Times 8 Nov. 389/2 Other records were... Old Time Favourites, the London Orchestra. 1933Auden Dance of Death 11 Select partners for an old-time waltz. 1947J. R. Gillespie (title) Old tyme dancing. 1950A. Wilson Such Darling Dodos 116 Derek's crazy to take up dancing in a big way again. He adores all this old-time dancing. 1952[see drag v. 1 e]. 1960D. Potter Glittering Coffin iii. 43 The primary school..is opened only for occasional old-time dances. 1967O. Norton Now lying Dead iii. 54 Tuesdays he stays at home because that's Her night for her Old Time. 1974Radio Times 11 Apr. 52/3 9.2 Time for Old Time in Radio 2 Ballroom. 1975R. Butler Where all Girls are Sweeter vi. 75 ‘It's kind of romantic, really.’.. ‘Like Old Tyme dancing on BBC radio, you mean?’
So old-ˈtime-like a., old-fashioned (U.S.); old-ˈtimer, one whose experience goes back to old times; one of long standing in a place or position; an old-fashioned person or thing (orig. U.S.); old-ˈtiminess, old-fashioned character.
1888New Princeton Rev. Jan. 122 Most of us ‘old-timers’..are poor now. 1889Chicago Advance 24 Jan., A small hotel, recommended to us as being more old-time-like than the others. 1882W. H. Bishop in Harper's Mag. Dec. 47/1 A few swarthy, lantern-jawed old-timers hang about the corners. 1887Blackw. Mag. Feb. 224/1 A picture whose old-timiness would have thrown a Boston novelist into ecstasy. 1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 34/1 A cutter of some six to eight tons..a regular old-timer. 1910[see fest]. 1922[see animal A. 6]. 1928Daily 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. 1928D. H. Lawrence Woman who rode Away 60 But he was an old-timer miner. 1929A. Woollcott in New Yorker 4 May 44/2 The big walnut tree that was an old-timer even in her day. 1939Sun (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. 1942‘M. Innes’ Daffodil Affairs ii. ii. 46 You ought to meet some of the old-timers there, Mr Wine. 1962Coast to Coast 1961–62 46 ‘Well thanks for the welcome, old-timer,’..Marlett said. 1966Listener 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. 1973R. L. Simon Big Fix (1974) xviii. 146, I raised the hoe... ‘Sorry old timer,’ I said and brought it down on the back of his neck. 1978Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVI. 194/1 This may seem familiar stuff to some of you old-timers. |