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
Her first special was a portrait of a young fogy, but this new one zeros in on her self-protective cynicism and exaggerates it until it’s an absurd cartoon.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 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
She says, parson, she’s glad our old fogy has gone, for it’s some pleasure to come and hear you.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
“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
Simpson: American Crime Story” are quick to remind us old fogies, many viewers will be coming to this material fresh.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2016
Oh, I know my plan will bring up all the fogies in full blast, And Coercion and Protection I see looking on aghast.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 February 15, 1890 by Various
