单词 | old fogeyism |
释义 | old fogeyismn. Behaviour characteristic of an old fogey. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > [noun] > state of being veterancy1755 old fogeyism1853 elderliness1876 1853 N.Y. Jrnl. Pharmacy 2 226 A class of articles..has been somewhat extensively used in certain extra professional quarters not at all amenable to the objection of ‘old fogeyism’. 1862 P. Brooks in A. V. G. Allen Phillips Brooks (1908) vii. 136 She's got a thick crust of old-fogeyism, but she's all right at the core. 1994 Queen's Q. Fall 555 At the time I chafed at what seemed to me old-fogeyism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1853 |
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