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What is the noun for fogey?

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fogy
  1. Alternative spelling of fogey
  2. (US, military, dated, slang) Extra pay granted to officers for length of service.
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    1. “I'm fogy and they want a hustler to represent 'em for a change.”
      “No philosopher would jettison Plato just because it's old fashioned, nor would anyone mock the old fogy Whitman.”
      “Yeah, but neither of us is old enough really to be a fogy about this.”
fogey
  1. A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow – usually preceded by old.
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    1. “This Charles question is not really about him being a fogey with hopelessly reactionary ideas.”
      “I'm such an old fogey that I can't remember ever having to crack out the crayons, Play Doh, and paints for my homework in high school.”
      “As a student he was something of a young fogey, snobbish, solitary and obsessed with cleanliness.”
fogeyhood
  1. The state or condition of being a fogey
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fogyism
  1. (colloquial) The principles and conduct of a fogy.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In thought it is a piece of dyed-in-the-wool old fogyism, but in form and literary style it is vigorous, jaunty, and amusing.”
      “By the time it became popular, I was already snugly settled into old fogyism.”
fogeydom
  1. The state of being a fogey.
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    1. “It's not a perception he wants to encourage at the age of 38, which is verging on old fogeydom in the rarefied world of cutting-edge math.”
      “Oh, well, I watch Teletubbies to relax, so no fogeydom in my future.”
fogyisms
  1. plural of fogyism
fogeys
fogies
  1. plural of fogey
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    1. “We spend our days in a teeny tiny office, typing in medical details for old fogies and climbing over staff to reach the shelves to file things.”
      “Amongst the old fogies and blue rinses are a couple of well fit posh totties.”
      “And I ended, as old fogies are entitled to do by slagging off today's so-called operating systems, describing them as crude and inelegant.”
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