fogey

[ foh-gee ]
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noun,plural fo·geys.
  1. a variant of fogy.

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How to use fogey in a sentence

  • In this way this old fogey thought to stroke my beard with honey, as the Germans say.

    The Last Miracle | M. P. Shiel
  • I came here to look after the estate, and here I have grown old—an old fogey, in fact.

  • Now run away to your golf and leave an old fogey to worry the thing out as best he can.

    A Traitor's Wooing | Headon Hill
  • But when my slightly contemptuous companion spoke I had no answer, felt out of date and dull, a fogey and an idle man.

    Old Junk | H. M. Tomlinson
  • One old German fogey wanted to have all the letters on the German typewriters changed to German script.

    Germany in War Time | Mary Ethel McAuley

British Dictionary definitions for fogey

fogey

fogy

/ (ˈfəʊɡɪ) /


nounplural -geys or -gies
  1. an extremely fussy, old-fashioned, or conservative person (esp in the phrase old fogey)

Origin of fogey

1
C18: of unknown origin

Derived forms of fogey

  • fogeyish or fogyish, adjective
  • fogeyism or fogyism, noun

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