opposite of hardcore, hard-core, or hard core. Derives from the opposite of each part of its antonym. Opposite of 'hard' is 'soft.' And the opposite of 'core' is (or can be) 'crust.' Refers to someone or something lacking in extremity or devotion.
Just because Tom plays on the varsity squad doesn't make him hardcore, he's still pretty softcrust to most people.
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)