Definition of "old-fogyish" [old-fogyish]

• Like or characteristic of an old fogy; behind the times; slow to accept anything new.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Carelessness is engendered by the thought that such work can be handled in a rough and rapid way, and, further, by the ridicule of all these things, which we have learned to be careful about, as old-fogyish, out-of-fashion, and archaic."
• "Doubtless he is old-fogyish but from his long association with our family he knows the Forsyth traditions and what the head of the House of Forsyth should be."
• "We are thought of, and not infrequently referred to by our contemporaries, as old-fogyish, and out of date."