1836. W. H. Smith, ‘The Thieves’ Chaunt.’ There’s a nook in the
boozing-ken, Where many a mug I fog.
1883. Punch, May, p. 210, col. 1. So large a picture, treated so
ideally—Not that that means stricture—Fogs us to find room for it.
1883. Daily Telegraph, 29 Sept. We turns what we say into tangle
talk so as to fog them.
Fogey, or Fogy, Fogay, or Foggi, subs. (old).—An invalid or garrison
soldier or sailor. Whence the present colloquial usages: (1) a person
advanced in life, and (2) an old-fashioned or eccentric person;
generally old fogey. [Derivation doubtful; suggestions are (1) from Su.
G. fogde and (2) from Eng. folk. See Notes and Queries, 1 S. vii., 354,
559, 632; viii., 64, 154, 256, 455, 652; 6 S. ix., 10, 195.]
1785. Grose, Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1812. Letter quoted in Notes and Queries, 6 S., ix., 10. My company
is now forming into an invalid company. Tell your grandmother we
will be like the Castle foggies.
1855. Thackeray, The Ballad of Bouillabaisse. When first I saw ye,
cari luoghi, I’d scarce a beard upon my face, And now, a grizzled,
grim old fogy, I sit and wait for Bouillabaisse.
1864. Tangled Talk, p. 104. An old fogey, who particularly hated
being ‘done.’
1867. Nesmith, ‘Reminiscences of Dr. Anthon,’ in The Galaxy, Sept.,
p. 611. The adherents of ‘progress’ mostly regard classics as old
fogey, and ‘see no use’ in the laborious years which youth spend
upon them.
1883. James Payn, The Canon’s Ward, ch. xv. ‘He would have
preferred some bookish sneak like Adair, or some old fogey like
Mavors.’
1888. Sporting Life, 10 Dec. So it is with the sister art of music,
for I (myself something of an old fogey in such matters).
So also fogeyish = old-fashioned; eccentric. Fogeydom = the state of
fogeyishness; and fogeyism = a characteristic of Fogeydom.
1877. Besant and Rice, Golden Butterfly, ch. i. They repaired
arm-in-arm to their club—the Renaissance, now past its prime, and a
little fogyish.
1883. Saturday Review, 31 March, p. 403, col. 1. Not the least
among the pleasures of fogeydom, so ably depicted by Thackeray, is
the confidence that it inspires in the hearts of the fairer sex.
Foggage, subs. (colloquial).—Fodder, especially green-meat.
1785. Burns, To a Mouse. And naething now to bigg a new ane
o’foggage green.
Fogged, ppl. adj. (common).—1. Drunk. Cf., foggy. For synonyms, see
Drinks and Screwed.
2. (common).—Perplexed; bewildered; at a loss. [From fog (q.v.), to
perplex]. For synonyms, see Flabbergasted.
1883. Illust. London News, 6 Jan., p. 6, col. 3. They were all
treading on one another’s heels, trying to do their best, but
hopelessly fogged.
1887. All the Year Round, 30 July, 30, p. 68. An Australian says
that he is bushed just as an Englishman, equally
characteristically, declares that he is fogged.
Fogger, subs. (old).—1. A huckster; a cringing, whining beggar; a
pettifogger.
1614. Terence in English. I shall be exclaimed upon to be a
beggarly fogger, greedily hunting after heritage.
2. (old).—A farm servant whose duty is to feed the cattle; i.e., to
supply them with foggage (q.v.).
Foggy, adj. (common).—1. Drunk; i.e., clinched or hazy (q.v.). For
synonyms, see Drinks and Screwed.