a. and sb. Also fogrum.
† A. adj. Antiquated, old-fashioned, out of date.
1772. Mad. D’Arblay, Early Diary, 3 Feb. His taste is terribly fogrum and old-fashioned.
1778. Foote, Trip Calais, I. Wks. 1799, II. 331. Father and mother are but a couple of fogrum old fools.
1832. Country Houses, I. i. 143. You really are growing quite old and fogram, I fear.
B. sb. 1. An antiquated or old-fashioned person, a fogy.
1775. Crisp, in Mad. D’Arblay’s Early Diary (1889), II. 136. What can Jem do with a parcel of old Fograms, without some other help to keep up the ball?
1776. C. Anstey, Election Ball, Poet. Wks. (1808), 223.
| Tho’ I very much fear that she thought me a fogram, | |
| All stuck out in satins, and I in my grogram. |
1840. Mrs. F. Trollope, Widow Married, xiv. I suppose I may think them fogrums and quizzes, if I choose?
1883. L. Wingfield, A. Rowe, II. ii. 34. Some dowagers and fograms were invited to meet the Princess and hobnob with her dear uncles.
2. Naut. slang. (See quot.).
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Fogram. Wine, beer, or spirits of indifferent quality; in fact, any kind of liquor.
So Fogramite, a fogy; Fogramity, an antiquated thing; also, a fogy.
1796. Miss Burney, Camilla, I. II. v. 250. Nobody’s civil now, you know; ’tis a fogramity quite out.
1823. ‘Jon Bee,’ Slang, The fogramites, a supposed club of imbeciles.
1832. Country Houses, I. i. 3. I am sure if one had ever so great an inclination to mirth, the Christmas parties, of old fogramities, collected in this house, would put even Comus to flight.
