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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A bumblebee.

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Examples

  • So, maybe I; n not such and old foggie about my 06 after all.??????

    Petzal: .270 vs. 2009

  • So, maybe I; n not such and old foggie about my 06 after all.??????

    Petzal: .270 vs. 2009

  • His rantings and ravings all these years are just Snob being an old foggie trying to keep that young man away from all that youthful foolishness.

    BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • If that is true, I needlessly called you an old foggie.

    BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Link nobody but fellow vets can do more to “out” this old foggie with regard to his vapid claims of patriotism and hist bogus support of our troops.nobody. — m.d. kruger

    Union Veterans’ Group Starts Ad Campaign Against McCain - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Such is the wretched condition of this world, that they shame not (fat, foggie, and nastie Abbey-lubbers) to shew how full-fedde they live in their Cloysters, with cherry cheekes, and smooth shining lookes, gay and gaudy garments, far from the least expression of humility, not walking in the streets like Doves: but high-crested like Cockes, with well cramd gorges.

    The Decameron 2004

  • At 12. of the clocke we had sight of the land, which we might haue had sooner, but it was darke and foggie all the same day: for when wee had sight of the lande, wee were not passing three leagues from it. [69 degrees 49 minutes.]

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • For by what conceit can a tongue bee directed to speake evil of that which draweth with him no lesse champions then Achilles, Cirus, Aeneas, Turnus, Tideus {90}, Rinaldo {91}, who doeth not onely teache and moove to a truth, but teacheth and mooveth to the most high and excellent truth: who maketh magnanimitie and justice, shine through all mistie fearfulnesse and foggie desires.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • We 've speel'd upon its foggie stem and dern'd amang its green,

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

  • Worthies, beyond all names of worthinesse; that neither dread so long either presense nor absence of the Sunne, nor those foggie mists, tempestuous windes, cold blasts, snowes and haile in the aire; nor the unequal Seas, where the

    Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Charles Morris 1877

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