fogyish

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Letter writer Roger Walton's admonition that one must "show some respect" by dressing up for the opera or the theater reflects a fogyish, aristocratic, East Coast preoccupation with what is "done" and "not done."

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2015

You should just see Brina tread our old fogyish social laws under her feet.

From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

On the other hand," Patricia always looked like a young saint, rather a wild one, to be sure, when she spoke of Burke, "I'm proud of my defiance of stupid limitations and fogyish ideals.

From The Shield of Silence by Loughridge, George

April 20.—The generation crowding on this fogyish one will sit in court of justice over the evil-doers, over the helpless, over the egotists who are to-day at work.

From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

I won't have you call yourself old—or fogyish, either!

From Raspberry Jam by Wells, Carolyn