Antic vs Old-fashioned - What's the difference?
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(architecture, arts) Grotesque, incongruous.
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Grotesque, bizarre; absurd.
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(architecture, arts, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
A caricature.
(often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour.
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* 1953 , John Christopher, Blemish
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A grotesque performer or clown.
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A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping
To perform antics.
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(obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
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(rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 70:
To make appear like a buffoon.
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Of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue.
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, title= Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times.
A whiskey-based cocktail.
* 1996 , Paul F. Boller, Presidential Anecdotes (page 286)
Antic is a related term of old-fashioned.
As adjectives the difference between antic and old-fashioned
is that antic is ancient while old-fashioned is of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue.As a noun old-fashioned is
a whiskey-based cocktail.antic
English
Alternative forms
* antickAdjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- And fraught with antics as the Indian bird / That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage.
- I saw the barren horror of your people's leisure with the million entertained by the antics of a tiny few
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- Pintsize: Wait, don’t you want to know why I’m tied up and hanging from the ceiling? / Faye: Not really. Nighty night! / Pintsize: Shit! My wacky antics have jumped the shark!
Verb
- Gentle lords, let's part; / You see we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarb / Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue / Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost / Antick'd us all.
- She unfastened her dress, her arms arched thin and high, her shadow anticking her movements.
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References
* OED 2nd edition 1989 * *Anagrams
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old-fashioned
English
Alternative forms
* old fashionedAdjective
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
Usage notes
* Said of all kinds of things including words, houses, places, chimneys, character traits, cookware, education, music, or style.Noun
(wikipedia old-fashioned) (en noun)- 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 .