“老古董”，本意是指古代或先人留下的旧物，也叫“古玩”（antique，curio），现在用来比喻过时的东西（something outmoded），或守旧顽固不化、思想陈旧的人（a person who is old-fashioned and likes traditional ways of doing things），与英文“old fogey”意思相近。 16岁的人觉得 ...

Sticks and stones may break their bones, but words like 'fogey' might just hurt them. Despite the old children’s rhyme that words are seemingly just that, new research has revealed that over-60s ...

And to many of these prejudices I still cling, so that probably makes me an old fogey now. But, of course, the reason it was rather nice to be called a young fogey was that no one could deny I ...

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It is also possible to spell the word, ‘fogy’. According to scholars, ‘fogey/fogy’ comes from the Scottish ‘foggie’ meaning ‘army veteran’. Nowadays, the word is mostly used to ...