英：[ˈfəuɡi]
美：[ˈfoɡi]
fogey如何读
fogey是什么意思
- n.守旧者；老顽固
- =fogy.
fogey变形
复数:fogeys
fogey词根
词根：fogy
adj.fogyish 旧头脑的；守旧的；有些老保守似的
n.fogy 顽固守旧者；赶不上时代的人（等于fogey）
fogey英英释义
- n.someone whose style is out of fashion
fogey词源中文解释
也称 fogy，指“一个老、呆板的家伙”，1780年，苏格兰语 foggie，最初指“军队退休金领取者或老兵”，可能与 fogram（1772年）“老式的”、“老式的人”有关； 或者来自 fog（名词2）在过时的“苔藓”意义上，或者来自 foggy “浮肿、肥胖”（1520年代），这可能是 fog（名词2）的扩展意义。相关词汇： Fogeydom； fogeyish； fogeyism。
fogey词源英文解释
origin unknown
The first known use of fogy was in 1792
fogey儿童词典英英释义
fogynoun
a person with old-fashioned ideas—usually used with old
fogynoun
a person with old-fashioned ideas—usually used with old
foghornnoun
a horn (as on a ship) sounded in foggy weather to give warning
foggyadjective
filled with fog
vague sense 2
fog1 of 2noun
fine particles of water floating in the atmosphere near the ground
a fine spray or a foam for firefighting
a gloomy condition of the atmosphere or a substance causing it
a state of mental confusion
spent the morning in a fog
fog2 of 2verb
to cover or become covered with or as if with fog
to make confused
fog1 of 2noun
fine particles of water floating in the atmosphere near the ground
a fine spray or a foam for firefighting
a gloomy condition of the atmosphere or a substance causing it
a state of mental confusion
spent the morning in a fog
fog2 of 2verb
to cover or become covered with or as if with fog
to make confused
fogynoun
a person with old-fashioned ideas—usually used with old
fogey 例句
1 He sounds like such an old fogey !
他说话听起来真是个老顽固！
2 This worker is at risk of being seen as an inflexible old fogey that everyone has to work around.
3 But now, Hillary Clinton risks coming across as a bit of a square, disconnected fogey.
4 There’s a lot of this comedy at an old fogy’s expense.
5 If and when a video game achieves this breakthrough, we doubters and Romantic old fogeys will fall respectfully silent.
6 Strikingly, it is in London that the rise of the young fogeys is most marked - a third of young adults in London do not drink alcohol at all, easily the highest of any British region.
7 But David Richer, a retired postman and self-styled "old fogey", says: "Who wants a raving disco at 7am?"
8 Looking every inch the provocative young fogey, complete with centre parting, bow tie and retro spectacles, he declared that every day he shoots up with a Montblanc pen full of "utter hatred of humanity".
9 “I don’t want to be judged as an old fogey standing there in a trial,” he said, admitting that his 15-year-old granddaughter is his source of insight into popular culture.
10 He’s previously written for National Review and other conservative outlets, and became a wholly certified young fogey when he won a Robert Novak journalism fellowship.
11 Could probably now be run as fogey slang.
12 “He was on the losing side of everything, an old fogey, the old view. And I don’t care.”
13 And some of us older fogies, Joni Mitchell and Carole King.
14 Plenty of old fogeys in pleated khakis were probably happy to read the news that skinny jeans could possibly cause nerve damage.
15 “I am very proud of Nanny,” the fogey MP Jacob Rees-Mogg declared to an adoring crowd on Tuesday.
16 Consequently, throughout the 1970s and ’80s Wilson was viewed as a Tory, a young fogy.
17 Sounds like the affectation of an old fogey.
18 Young people with the right stuff can be far more resilient than we old fogies suspect.
19 Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
来参加迪斯科舞会吧!别再当老顽固了!
20 The filmmakers, and Led Zep's surviving members, must have been delighted, but the whole episode made me feel like an old fogey.