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wibbly wobbley timey wimey 

A reference from a BBC Sci-Fi television series, where the main protagonist, the Doctor, tries to explain time to a character in the episode named Sally Sparrow. And describes that time is a big ball of "wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff." Or a ball of time where you can take any path alter any time line. Which is true, proven by Astrophysicist, Neil Degrasse Tyson.
Now used to describe something as very confusing.
This math problem is so wibbly wobbley timey wimey. It's so confusing.
Related Words
Timsey • Timey • timsy • Timeyin • tilsey • timesy • timeya • timeyah • timeyaing • Timeying
Term used in Canada to refer to popular coffee/doughnut chain Tim Hortons - In a shorter form
Mona- OMG I am geting too fat, I have 2 stop going to Timsy's
Nidhi- Ew gross I would never eat there
Timsy by bapadeeboopadee May 2, 2021

wibbily wobbly timey wimey 

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to affect, but actually, from a non-linier, non subjective point of view it is more like a big ball of wibbily wobbly timey wimey...stuff
Doctor Who (David Tennant)
for the use of wibbily wobbly timey wimey see definition, given by timelord David Tenant. From the television show Doctor Who

Old Timey Things

Jennie went to Amish Country in search of Old Timey Things and came home with a truck full of quilts.
Old Timey Things by crazyhrlady July 27, 2009

Timey Wimey 

time and space, or anything that has to do with a TARDIS or just going anywhere or anytime in the universe.
My time travelling rocket is very timey wimey.
Timey Wimey by TARDIS Traveler October 3, 2011

Old-Timey 

1. adj. Having aesthetic or intrinsic charactaristics that bring to mind things that are generally old-fashioned. In the aesthetic sense, this is similar in concept to the term retro, however, "Old-Timey" is usually used to express something slightly more primitive than "retro". Generally, the term "retro" is almost never used to describe things that are aesthetically relative to anything older than about 80 years old, (or generally just the 1920's) and usually represents cutting-edge thought, technology and design of a particular bygone era, usually sometime between 80 and 20 years preceeding the current date.

"Old Timey", on the other hand, is usually used to express someone or something whose general air is more generalized and primitive, and might have a much broader range of nostalgia, usually identifying with things only as recent as fifty years before the current date to two hundred years prior. Anything older than two hundred years old is sort of too old to be considered old-timey.

There is a bit of overlap between Old-Timey and retro, however, there are things that are Old-Timey that are certainly not retro, and vice versa.

A more obvious example might be that of the game Pac-Man. Pac-Man is retro, however, it is not nearly primitive or old enough to be Old-Timey.

The Film Metropolis, although a silent film, and filmed in the 1920's, is also not really Old-Timey either, as it's futuristic art deco look and feel made it stand out in it's day. Though it is from the era of things that could be considered Old-Timey, it rather is more properly described as retro.

Having a handlebar moustache connected to a large, bushy set of sideburns, a hairstyle that was popular for men from around the first quarter of the 19th century into the first decade of the 20th century, is definately old-timey, and much too old-fashioned to be considered retro.

2. adj. or noun. A term applied to music that has a primitave, usually folky sort of sound. Most commonly reffered to Jug Band and Bluegrass music, but also may include Dixieland Jazz, Ragtime, Folk, Klezmer, etc.
1. My uncle bob is very old-timey. He drives a model t ford, smokes a pipe and wears a bow tie. He also participates in Spanish-American War reenactments.

1. The tacky souveneir shop near that roadside Nevada ghost town was built to look like an old saloon. It was very old-timey.

2. I like this barbershop quartet. They are very old-timey.

2. Uncle Jed's Washboard and Jug band play Old-Timey.
Old-Timey by Christopher J Olsen September 17, 2008
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The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.
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