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fogyish Definition


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fogey
fogy
noun
    fogeys, fogies
    1. derog
      Someone with boring, old-fashioned and usually conservative ideas and attitudes, often called old fogey, also sometimes young fogey if the person with these characteristics seems particularly young to have such staid attitudes.
      Thesaurus: stick-in-the-mud, fuddy-duddy, relic, fossil, antique, anachronism.
Derivative: fogeyish
adj
    Etymology: 18c: probably from foggy moss-grown; young fogey used particularly since the 1980s.



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