The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fogy \Fo"gy\, n.; pl. Fogies.
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A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old; an old fogy. [Written also fogie and fogey.] [Colloq.]
Notorious old bore; regular old fogy.
--Thackeray.Note: The word is said to be connected with the German vogt, a guard or protector. By others it is regarded as a diminutive of folk (cf. D. volkje). It is defined by Jamieson, in his Scottish Dictionary, as ``an invalid or garrison soldier,'' and is applied to the old soldiers of the Royal Hospital at Dublin, which is called the Fogies' Hospital. In the fixed habits of such persons we see the origin of the present use of the term.
--Sir F. Head. (Mil.) In the United States service, extra pay granted to officers for length of service. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of fogey English)
Usage examples of "fogie".
To see people beginning life in a love-marriage so young as the happy pair in company, or even younger, as in the case of Edgar and Emily, is very refreshing to old fogies like you and me, Frank, who began our married life a good deal on the wrong side of thirty, and whose eldest children look out for white hairs in our heads.
Aspers particularly liked the security lights, and said that old fogies were into safety.
You may be living in the twenty-fourth century, but all those old fogies elbowing one another out of the way on the crest of the hill will never get out of the twenty-first, even if they manage to live till the next double-zero year.