Meanings
- uncountableThe state or condition of being a fogey
She had meant it when asking for a real drink. Roy had heard that the hard stuff was coming back into fashion, but had not till now met any female who displayed that taste. Perhaps he was on his way to fogeyhood.
2016, Thomas Berger, Best Friends1 more example
And yet I wish to risk a little bit of apparent fogeyhood and invite us to marvel at the fact that such complexity can be encoded in “just a bunch of ones and zeroes,” for therein lies a rather rich metaphor worth exploring as we consider how to read digitally.
2014, Eric D. Barreto, Reading TheologicallySynonyms: fogeydom
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state or condition of being a fogey
Origin
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fogeyhood. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fogeyhood
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