Synonyms for old fogey

Grammar : Noun

Top 10 synonyms for old fogey

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Définition of old fogey

As in senior citizen : noun someone of advanced years
As in fogy : noun square
As in elder : noun older person

Example sentences :

I don't care for that old fogey that's gone up-stairs; but, by Jove!
Extract from : « The Perpetual Curate » by Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant

But he was fifty, and beginning to feel himself an old fogey, as he confessed.
Extract from : « The Marriage of Elinor » by Margaret Oliphant

But I am an old fogey, and have been at this work for 40 years.
Extract from : « The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 2 of 2 » by Edward Tyas Cook

Still greedy for conquest, even though it is only an old fogey?
Extract from : « The Quiver 3/1900 » by Anonymous

In this way this old fogey thought to stroke my beard with honey, as the Germans say.
Extract from : « The Last Miracle » by M. P. Shiel

Why should she be bored with an old fogey, while there were young ones in the party?
Extract from : « The White Hand and the Black » by Bertram Mitford

Old fogey though I may seem for saying it—that must be kept unsmirched.
Extract from : « The Return » by Walter de la Mare

A boy of sixteen isn't going to be bear-led by an old fogey like Joynson.
Extract from : « The Luckiest Girl in the School » by Angela Brazil

But Mr Gilchrist is an ‘old fogey,’ and he has not helped but hindered matters, now and then.
Extract from : « Janet's Love and Service » by Margaret M Robertson

He clung to the manners of his youth and the younger wives called him an old fogey and smiled when his name was mentioned.
Extract from : « Ann Arbor Tales » by Karl Edwin Harriman

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