[f. prec. + -DOM.] The state or condition of a fogy; the disposition and bearing of a fogy; fogies as a class.
1859. Eminent Men & Pop. Bks., 158. A troop of such children, sketched lovingly and approvingly, seem to testify to the latent gentleness of the Fogey nature which he himself, insisting on the pleasures of Fogeydom, has described in a spirit worthy of Addison and the Spectator.
1861. Trollope, The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson, v., in Cornh. Mag., IV. Sept., 327. Mr. Brown is now sinking, into the foggy depths of fogeydom.
1890. Pall Mall G., 29 Aug., 3/1. The gentlemanlike fogeydom of Mr. Carteret.
