fogeydom en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈfəʊɡidəm/ (UK)
Etymology
From fogey + -dom.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state of being a fogey.
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.
2012, Andrew Greig, “Paths to Enlightenment”, in Literary Review, number 399: