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fogey
n. conservative, old-fashioned person, person who dislikes change


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Old fogey
Old fogey is a nickname used to describe someone as slightly old fashioned: out of touch with modern ideals. In 1811, an Old Fogey was a nickname for an invalid, wounded soldier; derived from the French word fougeux; fierce or fiery. The modern sense has changed the use a little, but there is still the element of invalid in the saying.Young Fogey was humorously applied in a British context to some younger-generation but rather buttoned-down writers and journalists — examples being  Charles Moore and (for a while) A. N. Wilson. The term is attributed to Alan Watkins writing in 1984 in The Spectator.
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fogey
Noun
1. someone whose style is out of fashion
(synonym) dodo, fogy, fossil
(hypernym) oldster, old person, senior citizen, golden ager
(classification) colloquialism


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fogey
fogey /'fougi/
danh từ người hủ lậuan old fogy: con người cổ hủ
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FOGEY
PERSONA ALL'ANTICA. PARRUCCONE. MATUSA

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