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单词 fogey
释义
fogey
noun[C]
informaldisapproving(alsofogy)
uk
/ˈfəʊ.ɡi/us
/ˈfoʊ.ɡi/
apersonwho isold-fashionedandlikestraditionalwaysof doing things:
老顽固，守旧落伍的人
Thepartyisrunby abunchofoldfogeys whoresistprogress.这个党由一群拒绝进步的老顽固把持着。
When you're 16, anyone over 25 is anoldfogey.16岁的人觉得年过25岁的都是老顽固。
Synonyms
dinosaurdisapproving
fossil(PERSON)informalhumorous
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
People who are boring and old-fashioned
  • bore
  • buzzkill
  • Colonel Blimp
  • crashing bore
  • dinosaur
  • drip
  • fossil
  • fun sponge
  • grind
  • has-been
  • killjoy
  • Luddite
  • nudnik
  • saddo
  • spod
  • spoilsport
  • square
  • stick-in-the-mud
  • stuffed shirt
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(Definition offogeyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffogey

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But this again is the reaction of an oldfogey, for whom an opera like this can only be a national disgrace.
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I am sorry that that feeling is not shared by my colleagues here—that phalanx of distinguished fogeys, young and old.
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I am rather an "oldfogey" in these matters.
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We are turning out some of the biggest bunch of old fogeys in the western world.
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I cannot help thinking that this attitude towards the cinema is partly because a great many old fogeys do not like it.
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He must know that the combined forces of bureaucratic inertia, backwoodsmen, backwoodswomen, and old and young fogeys could delay the changes for years and years.
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After all, it is probable that we are regarded simply as just a lot of old fogeys who do not like these things very much.
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It is very silly to ask every generation to moderate itself and palliate with old institutions and old fogeys when what is needed is modernisation.
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I would rather he a youngfogeythan an oldfogey.
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Those two judges involved are not old fogeys.
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It is the battle of the young fogeys.
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Is it to be left to an oldfogeysitting somewhere, who may rouse himself from sleep and form the idea that a certain banner would incite the public?
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The magazine coined the phrase youngfogeyin 1984.
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He previously has been identified as a youngfogey.
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Wilson has a reputation, gained early in his career, of being a youngfogey.
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