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fogydom

fogydom is the alternative form of fogeydom.

Meaning of fogeydom

Noun

fogeydom (uncountable)

  1. 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

Origin of fogydom

From fogy + -dom.

Questions about fogydom

What is fogydom the alternative form of?
Fogydom is the alternative form of fogeydom.

Words near fogydom in the dictionary

  1. Fogt
  2. Fogts
  3. fogus
  4. fogward
  5. fogy
  6. fogydom
  7. fogyish
  8. fogyism
  9. fogyisms
  10. foh
  11. Fohat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fogydom (page history and authors); fogeydom (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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