FOGIES Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

fogies

noun

variants also fogeys

plural of fogy

as in conservatives

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

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Recent Examples of fogies For the benefit of us old fogies? — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026 Now the 10% is for stubborn old fogies who refuse to change their ways and try something new. — Chris McKeown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Feb. 2026

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His conservatives and their grand coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), would have to agree on his successor, no easy feat.

— Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026
The student is one of several conservatives who count themselves among Fisher’s friends.

— Benjamin Wofford, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of conservatives

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The Colombian military veterans had been hired as security contractors by the Doral-area firm Counter Terrorist Unit and its affiliate, Counter Terrorist Unit Federal Academy, collectively known as CTU.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026
Some of the funds would go to support specific groups, including veterans, farmworkers and Native American tribes.

— Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 2026

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Pursuing her ongoing search for visual harmony, Ransom looked to ammonite fossils and the effects of water on their surfaces, using sapphires to mimic droplets.

— Virginia Corneli, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026
Dental thermometry Paleontologists have long argued about dinosaur physiology based on indirect evidence like bone microstructure, growth rates, and where fossils turn up on the map.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 20 Sep. 2026

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