fogey
Americannoun
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fogeys
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noun
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Origin of fogey
C18: of unknown origin
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Lewis paints Ray as an old fogey who simply doesn’t get it and has tried to impose old-school financial standards on new-school operations such as FTX.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2023
“I acknowledge the fact I was the old, craggy fogey and she was this beautiful creature,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
But I am also mindful of the possibility that I am a blinkered fogey missing the Next Big Thing.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2022
This Louis C.K., in contrast, is an old fogey who's sentimental for "Porky's."
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2018
Mr. Keesing, the old fogey who teaches math, was mad at me for the longest time because I talked so much.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
The Recording Academy can’t get enough of young fogeys like Laufey, whose pop-jazz balladry might evoke voters’ memories of Norah Jones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
The “serious” music that confounded the fogeys nearly a century ago is played in every symphony hall around the world.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2019
We think they are airheads; they think we are fogeys.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2017
When Schur attacked all of these dyspeptic, mother’s-basement-invoking fogeys, he believed he was punching up at the gatekeepers of the game.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2016
The country, after all, is the proper place for old fogeys like myself, as it is very difficult for them to live up to the present-day bustle of a large city.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917 by Various
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