English

Phrase

ye olde

1. 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.

2. 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 ye ‎(“the”) for more on how the spelling arose.