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单词 old fogeyish
释义

old fogeyishadj.

Brit. /ˌəʊl(d) ˈfəʊɡɪɪʃ/, U.S. /ˌoʊl(d) ˈfoʊɡiɪʃ/
Forms: see old adj. and fogeyish adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: old adj., fogeyish adj.
Etymology: < old adj. + fogeyish adj., after old fogey n.
Of, relating to, or resembling an old fogey; likely to appeal to an old fogey.
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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).
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