单词 | old fogeyish |
释义 | old fogeyishadj. Of, relating to, or resembling an old fogey; likely to appeal to an old fogey. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated > of persons, views, etc. old-fashioned1596 musty1603 mildewed1605 fusty1609 wormy1611 frumpy1746 fossila1770 arriéré1814 has-been1819 Rip Van Winkleish1829 frumpish1847 archaistic1850 fogey1852 fogeyish1852 old fogeyish1853 rusty-fusty1864 mossbacked1876 dead-handed1928 Victorian1934 unhep1939 unhip1939 dinosaurian1943 square1946 dinosaur-like1947 dinosauric1977 analogue1993 the world > people > person > old person > [adjective] dottered1581 old fogeyish1883 geriatric1926 adult1994 1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama (1854) 320 He worked some six or seven hands, but being of a slow turn, and very old-fogyish in his notions, he did not succeed very well with them. 1883 A. Forbes in 19th Cent. Oct. 722 The full side-face whiskers, which of late are becoming old-fogeyish. 1971 A. Cross Theban Musteries (1979) viii. 133 Reactionary and old fogeyish as he is, and he is, I think he was right. 1998 N.Y. Times 14 Aug. b34/2 It's a tired, bad, old-fogeyish piece. The figures are stock creations; the emotions the stuff of cut-rate melodrama. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1853 |
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