or fogrum, subs. (old).—A fussy old man. [Cf., colloquial sense of FOGEY.]
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1793. BUTT, Poems. We teach old maxims, neither less nor more, Than Locke, or humble Hooker taught before, Those FOGRUMS, quizzes, treats, and bores, and gigs, Were held in some account with ancient prigs.
1798. O’KEEFE, Fontainbleau, II., 3. Never mind, old FOGRUM, run away with me.
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
Adj. (old).—Fogeyish; stupid.
1777. FOOTE, The Trip to Calais, i. Father and mother are but a couple of FOGRUM old fools.
Hence FOGRAMITY = (1) FOGEYISM (q.v.), and (2) the state of FOGEYISHNESS.
1796. BURNEY, Camilla, ii., 5. Nobody’s civil now, you know, it is a FOGRAMITY quite out of date.
