A term that refers to the era of how and when America was created, going as far from the Civil War to the Revolutionary War; at least up until roughly 1880.
"In the Age of Our Founding Fathers, it is the snake that created the world."
-a message used in the advertising of MGS2 back at around its display in E3 on May2001
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)