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fogey

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"Old-fashioned person"

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈfoʊɡi/Part of speech nounSorted efgoyStarts with FEnds with Y1 clues
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Definitions

  1. someone whose style is out of fashion

Word origin

Borrowed from Scots foggie, fogie (noun), perhaps derived from Scots foggie (“covered with moss or lichen; mossy", hence "old, antiquated, decrepit”, adjective), from Scots fog (“moss; lichen”), equivalent to fog (“moss”) + -y. Further origin uncertain. More at fog.

Used in a sentence

  • [T]he old fogies, as you call them, at Bays’s, are some of the first gentlemen in England, of whom you youngsters had best learn a little manners, and a little breeding, and a little modesty.
  • "You've heard of him, of course?" "I'm rather an old fogey, as Caroline tells me," I said, "but I have just heard of him."

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