fogy

[ US /ˈfoʊɡi/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone whose style is out of fashion
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How To Use fogy In A Sentence

  • I was a very old lady - much of my physical strength abated - and old people by reason of age were almost sure to become garrulous, talked too much (if they have impatient kinspeople) and were set in their ways of thinking as well as of saying and doing things, and are old-fogyish in regard to modern methods and activities. Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,
  • It was formed in the beginning by a number of seceders from the local Women's Club, who, disappointed in their office-seeking ambitions and deeming the club old-fashioned and old-fogyish in its ideas, had elected to form an organization of their own. Cap'n Dan's Daughter
  • It was to Ray he promptly opened his heart, as that veteran of a dozen Indian campaigns, then drawing his fourth "fogy," came hastening out to join the commander. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier
  • Some are lively, some dull, some progressive, some old-fogyish, some moral, some immoral -- the result of the character of the early settlers and leading spirits, of the place in question. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers
  • Later i tried to charge it back up (my memory of these events is kind of fogy but i'll do the best i can to recount) it seemed like the battery wouldn't hold a charge. Discussions: Message List - root
  • And after that Job thought the preacher at Gold City was a little old fogyish. The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
  • For those of you searching for a safe reason to lambaste Twilight: New Moon without sounding like a grumpy old fogy, Asylum. com has the answer: New Moon‘s werewolves simply aren’t werewolves. Do 'New Moon's' werewolves belong on Daytona Beach? | EW.com
  • Of course that was 22 years ago and thereafter we sank hopelessly back into old fogydom, but we do remember that high mark.
  • Yeah, but neither of us is old enough really to be a fogy about this.
  • If you suggest that artists should create beautiful things, you risk being branded an old fogy. Beauty That's No Illusion
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