fogey

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Etymology

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

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Noun

fogey (plural fogies or fogeys)

  1. A dull person (especially an older man) who is behind the times, holding antiquated, over-conservative views.
    Synonym: old fogey
    • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 45, in The History of Pendennis. , volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
      [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.

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Usually preceded by old, compare old fogey.

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