Usually means: Traditionalist young person, old-fashioned tastes.
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  1. young fogey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Young Fogey: Collins English Dictionary
  3. young fogey: Wiktionary
  4. young fogey: Dictionary.com
  5. Young fogey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Young Fogey: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. young fogey: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (idiomatic) A young and overly conservative person.

Similar:
old fogey, old fogy, fogey, old fart, stick in the mud, foof, fuddy-duddy, fogger, fart, boomer, more...

Opposite:
modernist, progressive, liberal

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Similar:
old fogey, old fogy, fogey, old fart, stick in the mud, foof, fuddy-duddy, fogger, fart, boomer, more...

Opposite:
modernist, progressive, liberal



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