fogey

IPA: fˈɑdʒi

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

Examples of "fogey" in Sentences

Pathetic is the word that aptly described this fogey.
None other than older fogey rocket man Werner von Braun himself.
Am I just an old fogey, or is it really true that popular music of this era is far better than anything since?
How did my great anti-establishment hero come to morph so easily into the "SirIan" old fogey of present-day Test match commentary?
If you don't know what a Twitter Jockey is, don't feel like too much of a fogey, it seems like MTV is still figuring out what that means too.
True, I did watch Countryfile at the weekend fly fishing on the river Usk, hell yeah! but I fail to see anything fogey about refusing to join a virtual reality cult.
It's telling that in our culture someone who becomes associated with beliefs such as these is lampooned as a pathetic fogey who apparently thinks those old books are important or something.
I'm very pleased to have a new word in my vocabulary to use in the defence of young people and the attacking of the kind of fogey-ness that attends many, many discussions of young people, young people's behaviour, young people's books etc etc et bloody cetera.