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fogy
fogya stodgy, old-fashioned, or excessively conservative person, esp. one who is intellectually dull: She was just an old fogy who wouldn’t let her granddaughter wear an earring in her nose.
Not to be confused with:foggy – indistinct; bewildered; blurred as if by fog; not clear; vague: I haven’t the foggiest notion of what she meant.; thick with or having much fog; misty: a foggy day in London town.fo·gy or fo·gey F0221900 (fō′gē) n. pl. fo·gies or fo·geys A person of stodgy or old-fashioned habits and attitudes.
[Originally 18th-century slang, invalid soldier, perhaps diminutive (with suffix -y) of earlier fogram, fogy (of unknown origin) or perhaps from Scots foggie, old soldier (possibly from foggie, mossy, covered from moss or lichen, from fog, moss, lichen, from Middle English fogge, grass left uncut in the field for winter grazing; see fog2).]
fo′gy·ish adj. fo′gy·ism n. fo•gy or fo•gey (ˈfoʊ gi)
n., pl. -gies or -geys. an extremely old-fashioned or conservative person (usu. prec. by old). [1770–80; orig. uncertain] fo′gy•ish, adj. fo′gy•ism, n. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | fogy - someone whose style is out of fashiondodo, fogey, fossilcolloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speechgolden ager, old person, oldster, senior citizen - an elderly person |
fogynounAn old-fashioned person who is reluctant to change or innovate:fossil, fuddy-duddy, mossback.Informal: stick-in-the-mud.Slang: square.fogy
an old ˈfogey/ˈfogy (usually disapproving) (usually of an older person) a person with very old-fashioned or traditional views, opinions, etc: I’m not such an old fogey that I can’t remember what it was like to be a student.A young person with old-fashioned views, style of dress, etc. is sometimes called a ‘young fogey’: He’s one of the young fogies who write for the ‘Spectator’.See also: fogey, fogy, oldold codger/coot/fogyUnflattering names for an elderly man. Old codger, dating from the mid-1700s, may imply that he is testy or crusty, whereas old coot, from the mid-1800s, indicates he is silly or ignorant. As for an old fogy, he may be hidebound in tradition. None of these is a desirable epithet, or, as Terrel Bell put it, “There’s only one thing worse than an old fogy, and that’s a young fogy” (commencement address at Longwood College, Virginia, June 17, 1985). A newer and decidedly vulgar synonym is old fart, dating from the first half of the 1900s. Phil Donahue said it of himself on his NBC television show in 1992: “I didn’t always look like an old fart like this.”See also: codger, coot, fogy, oldfogy
Related to fogy: bewilderment, old fogy, indubitablySynonyms for fogynoun an old-fashioned person who is reluctant to change or innovateSynonyms- fossil
- fuddy-duddy
- mossback
- stick-in-the-mud
- square
Synonyms for fogynoun someone whose style is out of fashionSynonymsRelated Words- colloquialism
- golden ager
- old person
- oldster
- senior citizen
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