fogey
/ˈfəʊɡi
/(also fogy)
noun (plural fogeys or fogies)
A very old-fashioned or conservative person: a bunch of old fogeys...
- Why else would I be cheering on self-promoting snakes like Morgan and reactionary fogeys like Moore?
- This Charles question is not really about him being a fogey with hopelessly reactionary ideas.
- No philosopher would jettison Plato just because it's old fashioned, nor would anyone mock the old fogy Whitman.
Derivatives
fogeydom
/ noun ...- Oh, well, I watch Teletubbies to relax, so no fogeydom in my future.
- It's not a perception he wants to encourage at the age of 38, which is verging on old fogeydom in the rarefied world of cutting-edge math.
- ‘The soccer was never sold out when I was a kid,’ I said, lunging irrevocably into the world of fogydom the instant the words left my lips.
fogeyish
- ‘I'm really fogeyish about this,’ she replies.
- The stereotype is an elderly, fogeyish male, blissfully ignorant of the everyday concerns of people who appear before him.
- Two months ago, when the change was announced, a fogeyish campaign was mounted to save the theme.
fogeyism
- We had started to think that this creeping fogeyism had something to do with the fact that Collings' own paintings are being ignored.
- And to start generalising about the supposed shortcomings of the next generation is an unmistakable symptom of fogeyism.
- And sometimes there's a flash of the old comic vigour, oddly transformed by creeping fogeyism.
Origin
Late 18th century: related to earlier slang fogram, of unknown origin.
This word for an old-fashioned or narrow-minded person is first found in the late 18th century, in Scots use. It is related to an earlier slang term fogram, and may be connected with foggy in the senses ‘flabby, bloated’ or ‘moss-grown’. In the 1980s young fogeys appeared—young people noticeable for their conservative tastes and ideas. The phrase is first recorded as far back as 1909, but became popular with the publication of The Young Fogey Handbook in 1985.
Rhymes
- look-over
- look-see
- look sharp
- look small
- look smart
- look someone in the eye (or face)
- look someone up
- look someone up and down
- look something out
- look something up
- look the other way
- look the part
- look to one's laurels
- look to the future
- look up
- lookup
- lookup table
- look up to
- looky
- looky-loo
- loom
- loon
- looney tunes
- loonie
- looniness