Definitions
Examples
“I'm very pleased to have a new word in my vocabulary to use in the defence of young people and the attacking of the kind of fogey-ness that attends many, many discussions of young people, young people's behaviour, young people's books etc etc et bloody cetera.”
“Pathetic is the word that aptly described this fogey.”
“It's telling that in our culture someone who becomes associated with beliefs such as these is lampooned as a pathetic fogey who apparently thinks those old books are important or something.”
“How did my great anti-establishment hero come to morph so easily into the "SirIan" old fogey of present-day Test match commentary?”
The Guardian: TV review - Botham: The Legend of '81 and Regional TV: Life Through a Local Lens
“True, I did watch Countryfile at the weekend fly fishing on the river Usk, hell yeah! but I fail to see anything fogey about refusing to join a virtual reality cult.”
The Guardian: The clue's in Twitter's name for this footballers' tweets refusenik | Anna Kessel
“If you don't know what a Twitter Jockey is, don't feel like too much of a fogey, it seems like MTV is still figuring out what that means too.”
“None other than older fogey rocket man Werner von Braun himself.”
“Am I just an old fogey, or is it really true that popular music of this era is far better than anything since?”
“The subject can seem ridiculously fogey-ish and fusty.”
“Hari was particularly frustrating, for not only was he a young fogey who supported the war in Iraq, he was constantly used as an excuse for not letting me have a column in the paper.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fogey’.
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HollieGolightly's list
indigo, flippant, quaint, ebullience, subterfuge, conspicuous, surreptitiously, kodachrome, doppelganger, hullabaloo, nabob, motley and 21 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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2011 July
New words
correspondent, promulgate, transgress, trite, ravine, corespondent, contrivance, contrive, expedient, conducive, clairvoyance, difform and 184 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Idioms or Phrases or "expressions"
like nobody's bui..., soap up, plug away, country club, horse whisperer, cease and desist, eye of the beholder, small-claims court, nut job, heebie-jeebies, hole in the wall, black-tie and 101 more...
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Did you just insult me?!
Words to use in moments of high frustration that they hopefully won't understand.
naïf, jerk, temerity, presumptuousness, presumptuous, arrogant, impudence, insolence, hick, bitch, asshole, ass and 61 more...
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I'm Terrible With Names
Generic descriptors for a person that don't tell you anything about him or her (except, perhaps, that person's gender, age, or social class). Nice and anonymous. Useful at cocktail parties.
you, he, she, him, her, guy, man, woman, boy, girl, kid, lady and 46 more...
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Old people words
rapscalion, haberdashery, poppycock, whippersnapper, codger, fogey, senile, alzheimer's, hoary, feeble, decrepit, battleaxe and 7 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fogey.
sonofgroucho I wonder what fogeys are called when they are young? Dec 17, 2007
brtom I asked that old fogey in Boyd's for something for my skin.
Joyce, Ulysses, 11 Jan 6, 2007