fogy:
(plural: ‘fogies‘; also ‘fogey’; plural ‘fogeys‘; also ‘old fogy‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘g’ is said with a ‘g’ sound as in “gun”)
a slow uninteresting old person who dislikes changes and does not understand and accept modern ideas;
a person whose life-style is old fashioned,
old fogeys/foggies keeping to the old ways
I wonder how my titles change over the time: when my daughter was very young, I was her hero, dad knows everything and dad’s strong; when she was at college, I was a young fogey, who knows something modern but sticks to old ways out of fear of change; and by the time she finished college, got a job and got married, I was a hopeless old fogey; and now for her children, I am a grumpy grandpa who knows nothing, not even how to use the iphone; and the funny part of all of this gradual change over is that I’ve enjoyed every moment of it!
The idiomatic usage is the standard ‘old fogy/fogey’, but this phrase is also used for young people who like the old ways or who do not catch up with the fast changing modernism.
There’s nothing wrong in being an old fogy/fogey or a young fogy/fogey, but the question to ponder over is how far this old fogey attitude hampers the progress of the present generation and deprives the next generation of the sophistication of modernism.
The worst ‘fogies/fogeys’ are those in politics and fine arts who wish to stick to the same old ideologies that might keep a whole generation from prospering, and ultimately, might make the nation lag behind other nations.
(foggy weather)
