Then again, at least Milner is trying to be of use; he's an old-fashioned kind of fogy that way. From Wordnik.com. [The Kids Are All Right] Reference
I mean, I'm kind of getting to be an old fogy here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2006] Reference
I know I'm an old fogy so you've got to tell me this. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Sugar] Reference
Scratch a Web 2.0 pioneer, find an old fogy at heart. From Wordnik.com. [dustbury.com » I should have such a mismatch] Reference
Note: foyism, fogy, a person with old-fashioned ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Ida Cox Lyrics] Reference
But then I was always regarded by friends as something of an old fogy. From Wordnik.com. [I'M EMBRACING MY INNER CURMUDGEON] Reference
Where did this old fogy come from, they just forgot all about this war. From Wordnik.com. [Rumsfeld says Obama made 'bald misstatement'] Reference
Town in a cana small Boat, one of the fogy nights we have had this week. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 22 October 1775] Reference
The AARP network's young cast makes the old fogy its first island casualty. From Wordnik.com. [And All I Got Was This Stupid T Shirt] Reference
RUKEYSER: Yeah, but neither of us is old enough really to be a fogy about this. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2002] Reference
I am not a man, I am a domesticated old fogy, without the courage or the daring" ". From Wordnik.com. [The Curse of the Pharaohs]
Now I'm just fogy nuf that if I meet you out, I'll say good mornin 'or good evenin'. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Most of the other critics seemed to get the movie better than old fogy Roger Ebert did. From Wordnik.com. [16 « April « 2010 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy] Reference
Even McCain, dense old fogy that he's become, was smart enough not to take this too far. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton: My Dad Taught Me How To Shoot] Reference
“Would you have thought the old fogy capable of acting like this?” asked M. de Saintot. From Wordnik.com. [Two Poets] Reference
The poets were old-fogy chaps: they never saw the women of to-day, and well for them they did not. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
What's the "old man" -- your father, at forty-five -- but an old fogy who doesn't understand things at all?. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 03, April 16, 1870] Reference
If he is, in his words, “an anachronism” and “a young fogy,” the origins of that stance are easy to find. From Wordnik.com. [Man of the Hour] Reference
You talk about how you sort of just get mired in the red tape and bureaucracy, a fogy bottom where the place is located. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2008] Reference
When I was a kid I used to mock the fact that my parents listened to “old fogy” music like Nat King Cole and Louis Armstrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Courage To Be Christian] Reference
They are kind of old fogy, on the wild road yet, unless they have not got brains enough to sabe sic the advantage there is in it. From Wordnik.com. [EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON] Reference
Most blogs, including mine, are collections of observations and opinions that use previously reported work from old fogy professionals. From Wordnik.com. [Lab Book Club: The devil vs. crowdsourcing » Nieman Journalism Lab] Reference
War Department in Washington, and most of these men are too old fogy to send us anything out of the ordinary line of war correspondence. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference
"Oh, I don't call Mr. Brown an old fogy," defended Dotty. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Women on a Holiday] Reference
'Another dowager and fogy!' cried the Countess, musically. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference
He was going to be one of those old-fogy practitioners himself. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Teacups] Reference
Coulon, the justice of the peace, an old fogy with a sleepy face. From Wordnik.com. [Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life] Reference
How had he, a useless old fogy, dared to blackball a man like Iver?. From Wordnik.com. [Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House] Reference
We argue the reasons why these fogy gadgets can't hack it anymore. From Wordnik.com. [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference
At any rate, do me the favor of not ever again having such an old fogy to dinner. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.] Reference
The "Clarion," for that was to be its name, was to have nothing "old fogy" about it. From Wordnik.com. [A First Family of Tasajara] Reference
Hence the great mass of us settle down on the plane of mediocrity, and become "old fogy.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mind and Its Education] Reference
There's a fine keen courage about you Western chaps that makes a cautious old fogy like me envious. From Wordnik.com. [Free Air] Reference
How dull it must be for poor little Minnie to be cooped up night after night with such an old fogy?. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories] Reference
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