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FOGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fogy mean?
• FOGY (noun)
The noun FOGY has 1 sense:
1. someone whose style is out of fashion
Familiarity information: FOGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone whose style is out of fashion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("fogy" is a kind of...):
golden ager; old person; oldster; senior citizen (an elderly person)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
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