Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. of sexual intercourse, performed in the conventional manner, the missionary position.

1873–6		Romance of Lust 395: Aunt and I coupled in the old-fashioned way.
1966		Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 143: old fashioned enjoying the passive role sexually.

2. (Irish) precocious, forward.

1939

(con. 1880–90s) S. O’Casey I Knock at the Door 72: That comes of letting him go to the funeral, complained Michael. He’s getting twice too old-fashioned for his years.

3. of a look or glance, disapproving; also as adv.

1902		A.N. Lyons Hookey 135: ’E looked at me that old-fashioned, you’d ’ave laughed.
1914		Sport (Adelaide) 7 Feb. 7/1: Hock K. has a tabby, but she looked old-fashioned last Sunday tramping towards Loco .
1947		N. Streatfeild Grass in Piccadilly 219: The cat came in. Gladys put some fish on a saucer. ‘There you are, Ket. And don’t look at it old-fashioned.’.
1953		J. Franklyn Cockney 293: If he sees that ‘someone’ is pricking up his ears, he may ‘look at him a bit old-fashioned like’.
1961		(con. 1920s) J. Sparks Burglar to the Nobility 18: Kate Meyrick, who hadn’t exactly known what I did for a living [...] gave me a very old fashioned look inded when I walked into her club.
1962		F. Norman Guntz 28: The geezer I asked gave me an old fashioned look.
1974		‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell Plays Solomon (1976) 139: He gave me an old-fashioned look and I followed them into his room.
1982		P. Theroux London Embassy 101: ‘There’s another woman to see you,’ my secretary said, giving me an old-fashioned look on ‘another’.
2005		B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 42: She gave me what I can only describe as an old-fashioned look: part suspicion, part contempt, part innuendo, but most puzzlement.

4. obscene.

1937

P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 39: While he is goin’ I call him an old-fashioned name. This sorta riles him.