fogy

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of FOGY

a person with old-fashioned ideas <old fogies who said that rap music would never last>

Synonyms antediluvian, Colonel Blimp, dodo, fossil, fud, fuddy-duddy, mossback, reactionary, stick-in-the-mud, stuffed shirt

Related Words conservative, rightist, Tory; mandarin, old hand, old-timer, veteran; old maid

Near Antonyms liberal, progressive, radical

Antonyms hipster, modern, trendy

fogy also fogey

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