单词 | old fogy |
释义 | fogy or fogey /fōˈgi/ (derogatory)noun (pl foˈgies or foˈgeys)An old person, esp one with old-fashioned views (also old fogy or old fogey) ORIGIN: Prob from foggy moss-grown fōˈgram (archaic) adjective Antiquated nounA fogy fōˈgramite or fogramˈity noun fōˈgydom or foˈgeydom noun fōˈgyish or foˈgeyish adjective fōˈgyism or foˈgeyism noun young fogy or young fogey (derogatory) A young person who adopts old-fashioned opinions, appearance, etc old /ōld/adjective (oldˈer or eldˈer (qv); oldˈest or eldˈest)
Of old noun
ORIGIN: OE ald (WSax eald); Du oud, Ger alt olde /ōld or ōldˈi/ adjective A facetious spelling of old, used to imply that something has a quaint charm oldˈen transitive verb and intransitive verb (rare) To age adjectiveFormer, old, past (now usu only in phrases in olden days/times) oldˈie or (rarely) oldˈy noun (informal)
oldˈish adjective Rather old oldˈness noun oldˈster noun
old age noun The later part of life old-age pension noun A pension for someone who has reached old age, esp under a national system (first instituted in Britain in 1908; see also retirement pension under retire) old-age pensioner noun old bachelor noun A rather elderly or confirmed bachelor Old Bailey noun The Central Criminal Court in London Old Believer noun (historical) In Russia, a dissenter from the Orthodox church, a Raskolnik Old Bill noun
old bird noun An astute, experienced person old boy noun
Old Boy network noun
Old Catholic noun A member of a body that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church on the question of papal infallibility old-clothesˈman noun Someone who deals in cast-off garments Old Contemptibles plural noun The British Expeditionary Force to France in 1914, from the then Kaiser's probably apocryphal reference to them as a contemptible little army old country noun The mother-country Old Dart noun (Aust sl) Great Britain old dear noun (slang) An old lady Old Dominion noun Virginia old economy noun The part of the economy based on traditional industries and the production of physical goods (cf new economy under new) oldˈ-economy adjective Old English noun
Old English sheepdog noun A large breed of dog with a long shaggy coat, usu white with large dark patches old-estabˈlished adjective Long established olde-worlde /ōl-di-wûrldˈi/ adjective (informal) Self-consciously imitative of the past or supposed past old Europe noun The countries of Western Europe old face noun (printing) The early roman type as used by Caslon oldfangˈled adjective Old-fashioned old fart noun (derogatory or facetious) A staid or curmudgeonly old person old-fashˈioned adjective
noun (N American) A cocktail made from whisky, bitters, water and sugar old-fashˈionedness noun old fogey or old fogy noun A dull old person, or someone with old-fashioned notions old-foˈgeyish or old-foˈgyish adjective Like an old fogey Old French noun The French language until about 1400 old gang or old guard noun The old and conservative element in a party, etc old-genˈtlemanly adjective Characteristic of an old gentleman old girl noun (informal)
Old Glory noun The US flag, the Stars and Stripes old gold noun A dull gold colour like tarnished gold, used esp in textile fabrics old'-growth adjective (of forest or woodland) ancient old guard see old gang above. old hand noun
Old Harry, Old Nick, Old One, Old Poker or Old Scratch noun The Devil old-hatˈ adjective Out-of-date Old Hundred or Old Hundredth noun A famous tune set in England about the middle of the 16c to Kethe's version of Psalm 100, marked ‘Old Hundredth’ in Tate and Brady (1696) old identity noun (Aust and NZ) A person who has been around a place for a long time Old Kingdom noun The 3rd to 6th dynasties in ancient Egypt (26c–22c BC) old lady noun (informal)
Old Light (Scot Auld Licht) noun A member of a relatively less advanced religious school, applied esp to the party in the Scottish Secession Church who continued to hold unchanged the principle of connection between Church and State oldˈ-line adjective (N American)
old-liˈner noun old maid noun
old-maidˈhood or old-maidˈism noun old-maidˈish adjective Like the conventional old maid, prim old-maidˈishly adverb old man noun
adjective (Aust informal; also with hyphen) Of exceptional size, intensity, etc old man of the sea noun A person or burden that one cannot shake off, from the old man in the Arabian Nights who, having been carried across a stream by Sinbad the Sailor, refused to get down off his back old man's beard noun A name for several plants including traveller's joy old master noun (often with caps) any great painter or painting of a period previous to the 19c (esp of the Renaissance) old money noun
old'-mon'ey adjective old moon noun The moon in its last waning quarter before its reappearance as a new moon Old Nick see Old Harry above, and Nick Old Norse see Norse Old Pretender see under pretend Old Red Sandstone noun (geology) The lacustrine or continental equivalent of the (marine) Devonian, so called in contradistinction to the New Red Sandstone old rose noun
old salt noun An experienced sailor old school noun Those whose ways, thoughts or attitudes are such as prevailed in the past oldˈ-school adjective old school tie noun
old soldier noun
old song noun A mere trifle, a very small price old squaw or oldˈsquaw noun (US) A kind of duck, the hareld old stager noun An experienced person, an old hand old story noun
Old Style noun
old talk noun (W Indies) Small talk oldˈ-talk intransitive verb (W Indies) To make small talk Old Testament noun The first part of the Christian Bible, containing writings about the history of the Hebrew people and books of prophecy (abbrev OT) oldˈ-time adjective
old-timˈer noun
Old Tom noun (archaic) A kind of sweetened gin old wife noun
old woman noun
old-womˈanish adjective Like an old woman, esp fussy oldˈ-world adjective
Old World noun The eastern hemisphere any old see under any come the old soldier over someone To impose on a person of old
the old sod One's native country, esp used of Ireland, when also the ould sod |
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