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. ShielI came here to look after the estate, and here I have grown old—an old fogey, in fact.
The Schoolmistress and Other Stories | Anton ChekhovNow run away to your golf and leave an old fogey to worry the thing out as best he can.
A Traitor's Wooing | Headon HillBut when my slightly contemptuous companion spoke I had no answer, felt out of date and dull, a fogey and an idle man.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. TomlinsonOne 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
fogy
/ (ˈfəʊɡɪ) /
an extremely fussy, old-fashioned, or conservative person (esp in the phrase old fogey)
Origin of fogey
1Derived forms of fogey
- fogeyish or fogyish, adjective
- fogeyism or fogyism, noun
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