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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
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FOGGIE, n.² Also fogie, fuggie. [′fɔgi]

†1. A veteran or time-expired soldier, an army pensioner (Sc. 1808 Jam.; Slg. 1916 T.S.D.C. II.); “a name applied 60 or 70 years ago in Glasgow to the old army pensioners who turned up once a year at the Barracks in the Gallowgate and marched to the Green headed by a band. There they went through some military evolutions and fired a round or two of blank cartridges. They wore a dark uniform with long coats” (Fif.¹⁰ 1935, fuggie). First recorded by Grose Dict. Vulgar Tongue (1785) as slang.Dmf. 1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun 23:
Ilk Deacon march'd before his trade: Foggies the zig-zag followers led.Per. 1816 J. Duff Poems 30:
Leeze me on thee, my sodger foggie, To see yere face wad make me voggie.Sc. 1829 Jacobite Minstrelsy 303:
Afore I saw our rightful prince From foreign foggies flee, joe.Ayr. 1840 Contempor. Burns 292:
Gemmell was twenty years a soldier, twenty a garrison foggie, and twenty a wandering mendicant.Edb. 1853 N. & Q. (1st Ser.) VIII. 154:
I have a most vivid recollection of the Castle Foggies. They were an invalid company, and my recollection of them goes as far back at least as 1780.

2. An old, decrepit, or out-of-date person. Gen.Sc. Adopted in Eng. c.1840 in form fogey. Gen. with auld.Abd. a.1788 Aberdeen Mag. 699:
Now ilka lad has got a lass, Save yon auld doited fogie.Ayr. 1821 Galt Ayr. Legatees Letter xxv.:
Broth, and beef, would put mair smeddum in the men; they're just a whin auld fogies that Mr Andrew describes.Sc. 1831 Wilson Noctes Amb. (1855) III. 111:
The sex regard all the bachelors as so many old foggies.Bnff. 1880 J. F. S. Gordon Chron. Keith 65:
How delightful when we forgather with some chum turned an old foggie.Cai. 1929 John o' Groat Jnl. (18 Oct.):
Some auld foggies fae Thirsa.