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Old-fashioned you, having S&M! (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

thousand

'old-fashioned' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'you having sm' is the wordplay.
'you' becomes 'thou' (historical second person pronoun).
'having sm' becomes 'sand' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'thou'+'sand'='THOUSAND'

(Other definitions for thousand that I've seen before include "Ten hundred" , "Ten cubed" , "Large number" , "a fair amount?" , "Grand" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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