Old fogey
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Old fogey is a nickname used to describe someone as slightly old fashioned: out of touch with modern ideals.
In 1811, an Old Fogey was a nickname for an invalid, wounded soldier; derived from the French word fougeux; fierce or fiery. The modern sense has changed the use a little, but there is still the element of invalid in the saying.
Young Fogey was humorously applied in a British context to some younger-generation but rather buttoned-down writers and journalists — examples being Charles Moore and (for a while) A. N. Wilson. The term is attributed to Alan Watkins writing in 1984 in The Spectator.
