Old-fashioned contractions are shortened forms of words or phrases that were commonly used in the past. The five solutions for this term are 'maynt' (5 letters), 'tisnt' (5 letters), 'tis' (3 letters), 'shant' (5 letters), and 'twerent' (7 letters). 'Maynt' is a contraction of 'may not', 'tisnt' is a contraction of 'it is not', 'tis' is a contraction of 'it is', 'shant' is a contraction of 'shall not', and 'twerent' is a contraction of 'they were not'.