old-fogy

I also get a kick out of hearing old-fogy writers grousing about female fantasy writers, when I've been one for years now.

Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

The poets were old-fogy chaps: they never saw the women of to-day, and well for them they did not.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

Now, I had no letters of introduction and nothing to recommend me except a certain degree of maturity and a cultivated manner of speaking, and I might and probably should have been trying to this day to break into some sedate and high-toned old-fogy office had it not been for one of those accidents with which my career has been replete.

The Confessions of Artemas Quibble Arthur Cheney Train 1910

He was a man of two distinct moods: in his poetry he reflected the doubt or despair of those whose faith had been shaken by the alleged discoveries of science; in prose he became almost light-hearted as he bantered middle-class Englishmen for their old-fogy prejudices, or tried to awaken them to the joys of culture.

Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909

That we have kept up our old-fogy habits so long has nothing to do with the present question. '

People of the Whirlpool Mabel Osgood Wright 1896

Everybody said that if old-fogy Virginia did not make haste to join this march, she would be left "a wreck behind."

A girl's life in Virginia before the war, Letitia M Burwell 1895

She told Flora that she ought to thank her stars that SHE had the money herself in her own name, to do just as she pleased with, without any old-fogy men bossing her.

Oh, Money! Money! 1894

No man can make a greater mistake than to adopt these old-fogy ideas.

Twenty Years of Hus'ling 1885

I mention this to show that I do not believe in the old-fogy theory of our forefathers, to "let well enough alone;" and were I the possessor of fifty times the wealth of Croesus I would never quit, but still keep hus'ling.

Twenty Years of Hus'ling 1885

Bowdoin Street only differs from its kindred, in a certain shady, grave, old-fogy, fossil aspect, just touched with a pensive solemnity, as if it thought to itself, "I'm getting old, but I'm highly respectable; that's a comfort."

Stories of Mystery Various 1885