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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
fogy .
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- noun A dull
old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone whose style is out of fashion
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Examples
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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.
Ephebiphobia lili 2007
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True, I did watch Countryfile at the weekend fly fishing on the river Usk, hell yeah! but I fail to see anything fogey about refusing to join a virtual reality cult.
The clue's in Twitter's name for this footballers' tweets refusenik | Anna Kessel 2011
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None other than older fogey rocket man Werner von Braun himself.
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Am I just an old fogey, or is it really true that popular music of this era is far better than anything since?
Remembering Dave Dee 2009
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If you don't know what a Twitter Jockey is, don't feel like too much of a fogey, it seems like MTV is still figuring out what that means too.
Starre Vartan: Gabi, MTV's First Twitter Jockey is a Curvy Goddess Elected by Generation Y Starre Vartan 2010
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How did my great anti-establishment hero come to morph so easily into the "SirIan" old fogey of present-day Test match commentary?
TV review - Botham: The Legend of '81 and Regional TV: Life Through a Local Lens 2011
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Pathetic is the word that aptly described this fogey.
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If you don't know what a Twitter Jockey is, don't feel like too much of a fogey, it seems like MTV is still figuring out what that means too.
Starre Vartan: Gabi, MTV's First Twitter Jockey is a Curvy Goddess Elected by Generation Y Starre Vartan 2010
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It's telling that in our culture someone who becomes associated with beliefs such as these is lampooned as a pathetic fogey who apparently thinks those old books are important or something.
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If you don't know what a Twitter Jockey is, don't feel like too much of a fogey, it seems like MTV is still figuring out what that means too.
Starre Vartan: Gabi, MTV's First Twitter Jockey is a Curvy Goddess Elected by Generation Y Starre Vartan 2010
brtom commented on the word fogey
I asked that old fogey in Boyd's for something for my skin.
Joyce, Ulysses, 11
January 7, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word fogey
I wonder what fogeys are called when they are young?
December 17, 2007