noun
- an old-fashioned person who is resistant to change or new ideas
Usage: informal; sometimes spelled ‘fogey’
Examples
- My grandfather is such an old fogy when it comes to technology.
- Don’t be a fogy – try the new restaurant downtown.
- The young fogy refused to use social media despite being only twenty-five.
- She called him a fogy for preferring handwritten letters to emails.
- The committee was full of fogies who opposed any changes to the curriculum.
- He’s not really a fogy; he just likes doing things the traditional way.