: of a kind or style prevalent in or reminiscent of an earlier time
old-timey music

Examples of old-timey in a Sentence

tourists can pose for pictures wearing old-timey dresses or top hats
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Inside the door, you are greeted with an old-timey store selling vintage candy like hard lemon drops and Sugar Babies. Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025 Please submit your answers via old-timey telegraphs — and an expansion of his thematic preoccupations, The Phoenician Scheme finds our man Wes in a somewhat pensive mood. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025 And the tiny town of Grand Lake oozes old-timey nostalgia. Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 22 May 2025 Anyone looking for old-timey, medieval streets and structures, keep looking. Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for old-timey

Word History

First Known Use

1850, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of old-timey was in 1850

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“Old-timey.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/old-timey. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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