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View synonyms for horse-and-buggy

horse-and-buggy

[ hawrs-uhn-buhg-ee ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile:

    vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.

  2. old-fashioned; outmoded:

    horse-and-buggy methods.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of horse-and-buggy1

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30
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Example Sentences

The cars had plush green upholstery and stained-glass windows and were faster and cheaper than a horse-and-buggy.

That horse-and-buggy man, Judson, is almost sure to come, and I will find another.

We cannot win that race held back by horse-and-buggy programs that waste tax dollars and squander human potential.

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