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fogey

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fo·gey  (fg)
n.
Variant of fogy.
fogey or fogy
Noun
pl -geys or -gies an extremely old-fashioned person: a stick-in-the-mud old fogey [origin unknown]
fogeyish
fogyish adj
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Noun1.fogey - someone whose style is out of fashion
dodo, fogy, fossil
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
golden ager, old person, oldster, senior citizen - an elderly person


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Why couldn't he have chummed him with Fogey, or Thomkin, or any of the fellows who never do anything but walk round the close, and finish their copies the first day they're set?
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
Macbeth, and (2) Miss Macbeths; Viscount Paddington, Sir Horace Fogey, Hon.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
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