FOGY meaning: Old-fashioned person resistant to change

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fogy: Merriam-Webster
fogy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
fogy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
fogy: Collins English Dictionary
fogy: Vocabulary.com
Fogy, fogy: Wordnik
fogy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
fogy: Wiktionary
fogy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
fogy (fogey): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
fogy: Infoplease Dictionary
Fogy, fogy: Dictionary.com
Fogy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
fogy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
fogy: Rhymezone
Fogy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
FOGY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
fogy: FreeDictionary.org
fogy: Mnemonic Dictionary
fogy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fogy)

▸ noun: (US, military, dated, slang) Extra pay granted to officers for length of service.
▸ noun: Alternative spelling of fogey [A dull person (especially an old man) who is behind the times, holding antiquated, over-conservative views.]

Similar:

fogey, dotard, dodo, fossil, furlough, fur., fogydom, fadge, fizzer, fogie, more...

Opposite:

modernist, progressive, forward-thinking, innovative

Phrases:

old fogy, more...

Adjectives:

old, young, grim, grizzled, honest, positive, lucky, discreet, rheumatic, harmless, eccentric

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