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Meanings of fogyish in English

(Used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned.

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Examples for "mossy"
Examples for "mossy"
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Damp and mildew had left large mossy areas on their veranda floor.
East of the sun
2
The ashes of the dead had been strewn upon the mossy plains.
Hunters Out of Space
3
A girl sat on the mossy river-bank in the dappled, golden sunlight.
A Man Four-Square
4
The trunks of the old trees were big and rough and mossy.
The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone
5
From the heart of the agate the mossy landscape comes dreaming out.
A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shake...
1
The London club's approach has been too stodgy to date, after all.
The Guardian
2
However, he moves from the flee-flowing Warriors to the stodgy, forward-based Sharks.
News.com.au
3
They bore no resemblance to the stodgy side seen at the Velodrome.
The Irish Times
4
The stodgy old man answer is no, it is not a need.
Wired
5
He might call me various unflattering things, but not stodgy-notwith truth.
The Firefly of France
1
It breeds about Derali, Bairamghati, and Gangaotri, in the large moss-grown deodars.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
2
The stream was perhaps eight feet across, spanned by a moss-grown footbridge.
Night Shift
3
I have a nice garden but it is untidy, moss-grown- adilettantegarden.
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
4
Soon he was gliding along the sides of the moss-grown walls.
The Puppet Crown
5
On the two moss-grown pillars, reposed the well known crest of his family.
A Love Story
1
But what do those stick-in-the-mud, living people know about modern convenience, huh?
Wired
2
Oh, you are getting to be an old man, you stick-in-the-mud.
Breeder
3
Even stick-in-the-mud lawyer Portia Bellefleur was peeking around her conservative beau to study Mickey.
Dead as a doornail
4
I was once a stick-in-the-mud Halloween refusenik.
The Guardian
5
Naomi and Ginny exchanged the sort of glances which culinary sophisticates exchange in the presence of stick-in-the-mud louts.
Crown of Slaves
Usage of fogyish in English
1
But his scheme received no encouragement from the old-fogyish authorities.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
2
Why, Jenny, I hae heard that Robert Leslie once spoke o' the house o' John Callendar & Co. as 'old fogyish!'
Scottish sketches
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Fogyish through the time