fogey
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But sometimes, alas, a reluctant or confused old fogey must be persuaded.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023
“I acknowledge the fact I was the old, craggy fogey and she was this beautiful creature,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
“It was really hard for me, for such an old fogey, to perform after the new generation,” he said after he secured his Olympic berth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2021
But she can’t figure out how to voice these reservations without sounding like a fogey.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2021
Mr. Keesing, the old fogey who teaches math, was mad at me for the longest time because I talked so much.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
The Recording Academy can’t get enough of young fogeys like Laufey, whose pop-jazz balladry might evoke voters’ memories of Norah Jones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
The “serious” music that confounded the fogeys nearly a century ago is played in every symphony hall around the world.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2019
When Schur attacked all of these dyspeptic, mother’s-basement-invoking fogeys, he believed he was punching up at the gatekeepers of the game.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2016
In Shannara Chronicles, a collection of startlingly pretty young people take over the job of protecting the realm, teaching the old fogeys how adventuring is done.
From The Verge ● Jan. 5, 2016
What did old Randolph mean always hanging about that old woman, and all the rest of the old fogeys?
From Sir Tom by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
