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Fogey

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Variant of fogy.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. See fogy.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. someone whose style is out of fashion

Word Usage

"I'm very pleased to have a new word in my vocabulary to use in the defence of young people and the attacking of the kind of fogey-ness that attends many, many discussions of young people, young people's behaviour, young people's books etc etc et bloody cetera."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

old person golden ager senior citizen oldster

Variant

fogy

Form

old fogey

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