old-fashioned
adjEtymology
From old + fashioned. The cocktail (which goes back to at least the early 1800s) got its name in the late 1800s as more complicated cocktails became common and those who preferred simpler drinks began asking for old-fashioned cocktails.
Definitions
Of an object, outdated or no longer in vogue.
- My bike is old-fashioned but it gets me around.
- She was seated in a low old-fashioned arm-chair, directly below a portrait of herself, that had been taken just before her first visit to London.
Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times and the old-style ways.
- You can’t stay the night, because my parents are a bit old-fashioned.
A cocktail made by muddling sugar with bitters and adding whiskey or, less commonly,…
A cocktail made by muddling sugar with bitters and adding whiskey or, less commonly, brandy, served with a twist of citrus rind.
- Old John was mixing Old Fashioneds and every now and then he would turn and stare at the record case with an expression of great loathing.
- Bond took a shower and changed and walked down the road and had two Bourbon old-fashioneds and the Chicken Dinner at $2.80 in the air-conditioned eating house on the corner that was as typical of ‘the American way of life’ as the motel.
- At the end of the workday, the Trumans liked to have a cocktail before dinner. Shortly after they moved into the White House, Mrs. Truman rang for the butler, Alonzo Fields, one afternoon and ordered two old-fashioneds.
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A type of doughnut with a cakelike consistency and a rough surface, usually made with…
A type of doughnut with a cakelike consistency and a rough surface, usually made with cultured buttermilk and chemical leaven and fried at a lower temperature.
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- antonymnew-fashioned
- antonymnewfangled
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at old-fashioned. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at old-fashioned. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at old-fashioned
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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