fogy
noun
an excessively conservative or old-fashioned person, especially one who is intellectually dull (usually preceded byold ).
fogies
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pluralof fogy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“What it says for old fogies like me, is that the young are hungry for the word of God,” said Oldham, who is in his 40s.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2024
They moved from Midtown after a realization in their old building’s elevator that all of their neighbors were “a bunch of old fogies like us,” as Silverstein put it.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
Time and sorrow may make fogies of us all.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2021
But in our multiple-exclamation-pointed, totally amazing, but like oh-em-gee, the worst society, this kind of over-the-top rhetoric is what passes for what we old fogies used to call “contrast” in elections.
From Fox News ● Aug. 28, 2020
Pruckner started a little society, the object being to oppose the Philistines, or old fogies, and uphold modern ideas.
From Memories of a Musical Life by William Mason
