Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fogy.
- Fogyish.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word fogrum.
Examples
-
What gentleman will you ever find that will bear with a learned wife? except some mere downright fogrum, that no young lady of fashion could endure. '
Camilla 2008
-
Thomson's Spring; and though Lionel, with a loud shout, cried: 'Do you think I come hither for such fogrum stuff as that?' and ran out of the shop; the 'wrapt enthusiast' continued reading aloud, too much delighted with the pathos of his own voice in expressing the sentiments of the poet, to deny himself a regale so soothing to his ears.
Camilla 2008
-
For if there was one thing that the descendant of the friend of Sir Philip Sidney detested it was what he called “fogrum”.
-
But Greville could not endure fogrum in himself or in his friends.
-
Burney, perhaps, was a link between the world of ton and the world of fogrum.
-
Thomson's Spring; and though Lionel, with a loud shout, cried: 'Do you think I come hither for such fogrum stuff as that?' and ran out of the shop; the 'wrapt enthusiast' continued reading aloud, too much delighted with the pathos of his own voice in expressing the sentiments of the poet, to deny himself a regale so soothing to his ears.
-
What gentleman will you ever find that will bear with a learned wife? except some mere downright fogrum, that no young lady of fashion could endure. '
-
I've ordered all my clothes from town; so you'll come smart; not in your old fogrum style; and bring all the girls and them ladies; and Mudd will come, I know, of course; for he knows he's one of my flirts, and we shall give a gala-breakfast, arid drive off all toge - ther in a string, from the park-gates: breakfast exactly at ten, so you must be early; the review,
The Countess and Gertrude; Or, Modes of Discipline Laetitia Matilda Hawkins 1812
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.