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n. - Someone whose style is out of fashion.

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  • Then again, at least Milner is trying to be of use; he's an old-fashioned kind of fogy that way.
  • I mean, I'm kind of getting to be an old fogy here.
  • I know I'm an old fogy so you've got to tell me this.
  • Scratch a Web 2.0 pioneer, find an old fogy at heart.
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  • Just because you are an old "fogy" (an old-fashioned, conservative person) about music does not mean you are "foggy" (full of mental or physical haze) about the name of all singers.
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