fogey

• fogy, fogie

Borrowed from Scots foggie, fogie (noun), perhaps derived from Scots foggie (“covered with moss or lichen; mossy", hence "old, antiquated, decrepit”, adjective), from Scots fog (“moss; lichen”), equivalent to fog (“moss”) +‎ -y. Further origin uncertain. More at fog.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊɡi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊɡi/

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• Rhymes: (General American) -oʊɡi, (Received Pronunciation) -əʊɡi

fogey (plural fogies or fogeys)

1. A dull person (especially an old man) who is behind the times, holding antiquated, over-conservative views.

   Synonym: old fogey

   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 45, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     [T]he old fogies, as you call them, at Bays’s, are some of the first gentlemen in England, of whom you youngsters had best learn a little manners, and a little breeding, and a little modesty.

   • 1926, Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd:

     "You've heard of him, of course?" "I'm rather an old fogey, as Caroline tells me," I said, "but I have just heard of him."

Usually preceded by old, compare old fogey.