ye olde
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /jiː əʊld/, IPA(key): /jiː əʊldi/
Phrase
- Faux-archaic form of the old
- I'm not wasting my time going to lectures given by ye olde professor Jones.
- Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe.
- Pseudo-archaic, pertaining to a historically inaccurate invocation of pre-modern times.
Usage notes
- Jocularly added as an adjective to modern nouns to indicate that something is either outmoded or comfortably old fashioned. See Etymology 2 of ye (“the”) for more on how the spelling arose.
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