Thesaurus / old fogy
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synonyms for old fogy
- dotard
- fogy
- fusspot
- granny
- square
- stick-in-the-mud
- dull person
- fussbudget
- fussy person
- old fart
- old geezer
- old maid
- old poop
- stuffed shirt
- antediluvian
- conservative
- die-hard
- fossil
- fuddy-duddy
- mossback
- reactionary
- obstinate person
- person set in ways
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to old fogy, such as: fogey, dodo, fossil, fuddy-duddy, stick-in-the-mud, and old fogey.
How to use old fogy in a sentence
How had he, a useless old fogy, dared to blackball a man like Iver?
TRISTRAM OF BLENTANTHONY HOPEThey have won the annual debate right along, so that my old fogy uncle declares all the brains are in Harvard.
FRANK MERRIWELL'S RACESBURT L. STANDISHThey laughed at me because I found fault with these things and called me an old fogy.
HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN CLOCK BUSINESS FOR THE PAST SIXTY YEARS, AND LIFE OF CHAUNCEY JEROMECHAUNCEY JEROME"Old fogy teacher" or "he has the old ways yet" are expressions that are too common to require any explanation.
THE YOUTHFUL WANDERERGEORGE H. HEFFNERI go to the latter occasionally—the institute is an old fogy concern, but the grounds are fine.
THE WOUND DRESSERWALT WHITMANOld fogy as I am, and still given to poetical quotations, I never made a more felicitous quotation than that.
THE MARTIANGEORGE DU MAURIERIt is only the old fogy who thinks modern young people "know too much."
THE GOOD HOUSEKEEPING MARRIAGE BOOKVARIOUSIt is losing time to reason with that old fogy who sees in the events of the day only so many opportunities for quotations.
WITHIN AN INCH OF HIS LIFEEMILE GABORIAUHe not only regarded him as an old fogy, a vain old fogy, but as a dead weight upon the Star.
HEMPFIELDDAVID GRAYSONEverybody said that if old-fogy Virginia did not make haste to join this march, she would be left "a wreck behind."
A GIRL'S LIFE IN VIRGINIA BEFORE THE WARLETITIA M. BURWELLWORDS RELATED TO OLD FOGY
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