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fogey

[ UK /fˈə‍ʊd‍ʒi/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone whose style is out of fashion

How To Use fogey In A Sentence

  • Old fogey: Carline, ah, how to begin to aloud again case old?
  • Why should it be when all you ever heard was some old fogey in a dusty gown declaiming Cicero or Beowulf ? CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • Still let me sing thy praises, gracious Love, though I am entering on the days of fogeydom, and my minstrelsy is something rusty. Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)
  • Often dismissed as wrinklies and fogeys, dodderers and ditherers, it turns out that the company's target audience are, in fact, among the biggest consumers in the country.
  • _tapis_ in the circumlocution departments with the usual quantity of red tape and dillydallying of effete fogeydom and dunderheads generally. Ulysses
  • None other than older fogey rocket man Werner von Braun himself. NASA 2.0? - NASA Watch
  • Isn't that what an old fogey's supposed to say?
  • Why should it be when all you ever heard was some old fogey in a dusty gown declaiming Cicero or Beowulf? CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • His donnish concerns and highly specific milieu make him less ‘contemporary and accessible’ than his Anglophilic, Masterpiece Theaterish, young fogey fans might think.
  • True, I did watch Countryfile at the weekend fly fishing on the river Usk, hell yeah! but I fail to see anything fogey about refusing to join a virtual reality cult. The clue's in Twitter's name for this footballers' tweets refusenik | Anna Kessel
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