Pronunciation: famous
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin famosus, from fama fame
Date: 21st century
1 a : well known b : one who is honored for achivements c: one who follows their dreams d: one who never gives up and strives to reach the top d: popular
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)