old fogeydomn.
/ˌəʊl(d) ˈfəʊɡɪdəm/, U.S. /ˌoʊl(d) ˈfoʊɡidəm/ The group or category of people who can be described or classified as old fogeys; the state or condition of being an old fogey.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > old-fashionedness > one who is old fashioned > state of being
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1852 Democratic Rev. Mar. 203/1 The old fogy drones who have so long lived parasitically upon the democratic party, and whose ‘politic’ and sonorous old fogydom, the illustrious gentleman from Kentucky has immortalized his youth defending... Young America is not the offspring of old fogydom.
1888 Times 22 Feb. 10/1 We shall do very well with the youth of the Liberal party, all old fogeydom notwithstanding.
1889 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 111/2 It represents the judgment of old fogeydom, which it is their mission to correct.
a1913 F. Rolfe Nicholas Crabbe (1958) xxvii. 188 Exasperate and purulent old-fogeydom.
1920 T. P. Nunn Education xii. 147 At that age..old fogeydom already lays his hand on most of us, little as we may expect it.
1981 J. Simon Paradigms Lost xi. 213 Misinformed attacks on Old Fogeydom..invariably represent us as people who shudder at a split infinitive.
2003 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 4 Apr. 25 One imagines that when the author reaches the genuine state of old fogeydom at which he currently merely plays, this book will be submerged.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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