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fogy
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. 1 (alternative spelling of fogey English) 2 (cx US military dated slang English) Extra pay granted to officers for length of service.
WordNet
Usage examples of "fogy".
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.
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Old Fogy played all the concertos, sonatas, studies and minor pieces worth while.
No one will ever dispute these dates, as was the case with Chopin, for Old Fogy will be soon forgotten.
Even if Old Fogy did study with Hummel, is that any reason why we should be bored by the fact?
Yes, the truth must out, I went to Bayreuth at the express suggestion of my grandson, Old Fogy 3d, a rip-roaring young blade who writes for a daily paper in your city.
He had not quite liked the tone of that specially exoteric young monster-cub, who had clearly regarded him as a distinguished fogy from the army of martyrs.
Wiseguy, and I can still see better than ninety-nine per cent of the fogies my age.
And the guests weren't the desiccated old fogies I was expecting to see at this fiftieth birthday party for a manufacturer of dishwashers.
He disliked being phoned at home, he disliked being ordered to make rapid decisions, he disliked the Minister and he particularly disliked the suggestion that his department consisted of run-of-the-mill old fogies.
Go out and get myself trampled to death like the rest of the old fogies?
There is nothing like the medical profession for that: one can have the exclusive scientific life that touches the distance and befriend the old fogies in the parish too.