fogy
noun
an excessively conservative or old-fashioned person, especially one who is intellectually dull (usually preceded byold ).
fogyism
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a word derived from
fogy.
Example Sentences
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But in Paris last week the Municipal Council took vigorous steps to stamp out such old fogyism, to force everyone who is not blind to see advertisements.
From Time Magazine Archive
He felt himself convicted of narrow-mindedness, of retrogression, of fogyism, and by way of disproving the charge he put up a defence that was disguised in the form of an attack.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan
When articles by these opponents to suffrage appeared, the argument of youth hardly held good; and the attacks of the suffragists were quickly shifted to the ground of "narrow-mindedness and old-fashioned fogyism."
From The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Edward William Bok
I listened to the heaviest absurdities and fogyism on military affairs oracularly preached by one of the great West Pointers on duty here.
From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
"A large catholicity is taking the place of the old fogyism of former days," scribbles the hack-writer.
From The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees
