fogyish

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fo·gy

or fo·gey (fō′gē)

n. pl. fo·gies or fo·geys

A person of stodgy or old-fashioned habits and attitudes.

[Originally 18th-century slang, invalid soldier, perhaps diminutive (with suffix -y) of earlier fogram, fogy (of unknown origin) or perhaps from Scots foggie, old soldier (possibly from foggie, mossy, covered from moss or lichen, from fog, moss, lichen, from Middle English fogge, grass left uncut in the field for winter grazing; see fog²).]

fo′gy·ish adj.

fo′gy·ism n.

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Adj.

fogyish - (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life"

stick-in-the-mud, stodgy, moss-grown, mossy

unfashionable, unstylish - not in accord with or not following current fashion; "unfashionable clothes"; "melodrama of a now unfashionable kind"

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