fogy
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Consequently, throughout the 1970s and ’80s Wilson was viewed as a Tory, a young fogy.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022
I comfortably describe myself as an old fogy.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2018
Slopen, a young fogy, explains this novel’s sensibility, somewhat, by stating that his father was technically a Victorian.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2014
He can be didactic, a crotchety young fogy.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2012
But she sed I was an old fogy.
From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Smith, Seba
“What it says for old fogies like me, is that the young are hungry for the word of God,” said Oldham, who is in his 40s.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2024
Time and sorrow may make fogies of us all.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2021
But in our multiple-exclamation-pointed, totally amazing, but like oh-em-gee, the worst society, this kind of over-the-top rhetoric is what passes for what we old fogies used to call “contrast” in elections.
From Fox News ● Aug. 28, 2020
The young and restless pundit class has an entirely different code of workplace ethics than many of the old fogies running the shows.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2020
All the sewing-bees and quiltings, Apple-parings, and corn-huskings, Barbecues and basket meetings, Chicken-fights, and swift foot-races, Even singing-schools, were banished To the primitive old fogies.
From The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. by Potts, Eugenia Dunlap
