fogram, a. and n.
(ˈfəʊgrəm)
Also fogrum.
† A. adj. Antiquated, old-fashioned, out of date.
| 1772 F. Burney Early Diary, 3 Feb., His taste is terribly fogrum and old-fashioned. 1778 Foote Trip Calais i. Wks. 1799 II. 331 A couple of fogrum old fools. 1832 Country Houses I. i. 143 You really are growing quite old and fogram, I fear. |
B. n.
1. An antiquated or old-fashioned person, a fogy.
| 1775 Crisp in Mad. D'Arblay's Early Diary (1889) II. 136 A parcel of old Fograms. 1776 Anstey Election Ball. Poet. Wks. (1808) 223, I very much fear that she thought me a fogram. 1840 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. |
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 ˈfogramite, a fogy; foˈgramity, an antiquated thing; also, a fogy.
| 1796 F. 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 The Christmas parties, of old fogramities, collected in this house. |