Fogeydom
//ˈfəʊɡidəm// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state of being a fogey. uncountable
"The latent fogeydom never goes away entirely: contemporary or modern architecture, derided as ‘childish’, ‘infantile’ or plain ‘ugly’, is consistently and erroneously elided with postwar cheap tower-block brutalism and the destruction of town centres."
Example
More examples"The latent fogeydom never goes away entirely: contemporary or modern architecture, derided as ‘childish’, ‘infantile’ or plain ‘ugly’, is consistently and erroneously elided with postwar cheap tower-block brutalism and the destruction of town centres."
Etymology
From fogey + -dom.
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