Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person of stodgy or old-fashioned habits and attitudes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A slow or dull fellow; an old-fashioned or very conservative person; one who is averse to change or novelty: usually with the epithet old.
- noun An invalid or garrison soldier.
- noun Extra pay for long service.
- noun Also written fogie, fogey.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq. A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by
old ; anold fogy . - noun (Mil.), colloq. In the United States service, extra pay granted to officers for length of service.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
fogey .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone whose style is out of fashion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Then again, at least Milner is trying to be of use; he's an old-fashioned kind of fogy that way.
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Then again, at least Milner is trying to be of use; he's an old-fashioned kind of fogy that way.
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It was to Ray he promptly opened his heart, as that veteran of a dozen Indian campaigns, then drawing his fourth "fogy," came hastening out to join the commander.
A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier Charles King 1888
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Later i tried to charge it back up (my memory of these events is kind of fogy but i'll do the best i can to recount) it seemed like the battery wouldn't hold a charge.
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Later i tried to charge it back up (my memory of these events is kind of fogy but i'll do the best i can to recount) it seemed like the battery wouldn't hold a charge.
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Most of the other critics seemed to get the movie better than old fogy Roger Ebert did.
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If you suggest that artists should create beautiful things, you risk being branded an old fogy.
Beauty That's No Illusion Willard Spiegelman 2011
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Where did this old fogy come from, they just forgot all about this war.
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For those of you searching for a safe reason to lambaste Twilight: New Moon without sounding like a grumpy old fogy, Asylum. com has the answer: New Moon‘s werewolves simply aren’t werewolves.
Do 'New Moon's' werewolves belong on Daytona Beach? | EW.com 2009
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Most of the other critics seemed to get the movie better than old fogy Roger Ebert did.
16 « April « 2010 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2010
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