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old fogy

NOUN
fogy/fogey
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NOUN
mossback
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I comfortably describe myself as an old fogy.

From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2018

Does all of this make me an old fogy?

From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2010

He has a pedagogic urge to prove that "being in the field of classics doesn't make one an old fogy."

From Time Magazine Archive

Pierre Bonnard's latter-day success is galling to some Parisian moderns, who think he is an old fogy.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is therefore not on account of superior merits, but on account of old fogy notions and prejudices that the bureaucracy, military and civil, consider themselves to be of such immeasurable importance.

From Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant by Hans Mattson




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