old-fogyishness

Updated: July 10, 2026

Missy had heard Tess thus pigeonhole her grandmother often before, but now, for the first time, she didn't feel a little secret repugnance for the rude classification. Grandma Shears WAS old-fogyish. But it wasn't her old-fogyishness, per se, that irritated; it was the fact that her old-fogyishness had made her "call down" Missy in front of the minister. Just as if Missy were a child.

Dana Gatlin - Missy