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young fogey
Also young fogy and with capital initials.
[f. young a. + fogy, fogey 2.]
A young person of noticeably conservative tastes or outlook. Cf. old fogey s.v. fogy, fogey 2.
Though occasionally used at an earlier date in contrast with old fogey, the expression did not become common until the 1980s.
c1909C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1935) VI. i. xii. 218, I expect the day will come when another generation of old and young fogies will be equally indisposed to admit that there is any corner of the whole field that I have not turned up. 1929‘D. Yates’ Maiden Stakes 11 Fashions, outlook, the spirit and manners of the age—I found the lot beyond me... I was a young fogey. 1980Business Week 6 Oct. 95 Noting a split in the profession between ‘old Turks and young fogies’, Aaron says: ‘The older generation of economists was stimulated by external problems.’ 1981N.Y. Times 18 Mar. a27/1 At their worst, conservatives were old fogeys. There were some young conservatives, of course, but they were unbrilliant young fogeys. 1983Listener 27 Jan. 21/3 He implies that this is a consequence of the decline in educational standards of the past decades. Mr. Wilson, though he has many admirable qualities, is a bit of a professional young fogey. 1985Times 16 July 30 Mr. Gorbachov is something of a young fogy, though with an inquiring mind. 1985S. Lowry Young Fogey Handbk. i. 8 The present resurgence of the Young Fogey ties up neatly with the reinvention of the class system that has been going on at least in the South of England ever since Tina Brown revamped Tatler. |