fogeydom

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fogeydom

/ˈfəʊɡidəm/ UK

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From fogey + -dom.

noun

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.
Similar: codgerhood, geezerdom, oldhood

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@misc{fogeydom_2026,
  title = {fogeydom},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fogeydom},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}