‖ouderwetse, adjective

/ˌəʊdə(r)ˈvetsə/
Forms:
Also oudewetse.
Origin:
Afrikaans.
Old-fashioned.
1891 H.J. Duckitt Hilda’s ‘Where Is It?’ 167Pie (Old-fashioned Dutch). (‘Ouderwetse Pasty’..).
1913 D. Fairbridge Piet of Italy 156He has pulled down the old homestead and built a fine new one with an iron roof and a striped verandah. ‘What’s the good of an oudewetse thatched roof?’ he says.
1915 D. Fairbridge Torch Bearer 26Poor Mrs. le Sueur...To think..that she should have to live in that oudewetse house, just as it came from her husband’s mother, without any modern improvements!
1971 L.G. Green Taste of S.-Easter 89I like to think of Victorian housewives in Manchester poring over the mebos recipe and a Cockney ’bus-driver coming home to find Mrs J. Cloete’s ouderwetse chicken pie on the table.
Old-fashioned.
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18911971
ouderling, nounn.oudstryder, nounn.
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