Dictionary

traddy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈtɹæd.i/ (Canada, US)

Etymology

From trad + -y.

Meanings

1. (colloquial) Traditional, traditionalist.
   • The arrangements are quite crisp and the reading of ‘Lush Life’, unexpectedly in among the traddier stuff, is quite powerful and much too brief. 1998, Richard Cook, Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on Compact Disc, →ISBN, page 528:
   • It’s true that there are handfuls of crusty old “Traddy” Catholics like me, who do have reservations about the Second Vatican Council and the new liturgy. 2021, Michael Brendan Dougherty, “Pope Francis Takes Aim at the Latin Mass—and His Own Faithful”, in Peter Kwasniewski, editor, From Benedict’s Peace to Francis’s War, →ISBN:
   • I was sometimes considered too modern for traddy clubs, and too traddy for the other kind. 2003, English Dance and Song, volume 65, page 18:

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