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MattPaasch -> RE: The Young Folks' SG Thread (8/16/2007 10:25:26 AM)
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Old fogey is a nickname used to describe someone as slightly old fashioned: out of touch with modern ideals. In 1811, an Old Fogey was a nickname for an invalid, wounded soldier; derived from the French word fougeux; fierce or fiery. The modern sense has changed the use a little, but there is still the element of invalid in the saying. Someone with boring, old-fashioned and usually conservative ideas and attitudes, often called old fogey, also sometimes young fogey if the person with these characteristics seems particularly young to have such staid attitudes. Thesaurus: stick-in-the-mud, fuddy-duddy, relic, fossil, antique, anachronism. There is an dividing age for this?
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