A process that involves the systematic disintegration of the brain, often a consequence of an extremely befuddling statement or assertion, such as an ancient chinese proverb or a sentence in Latin.
Person 1: did I confuse you?
Person 2: yeah i was on the brink of neuro-defragmentation
Person 1: So you say he was trying to listen to classical music whilst watching scuzz and doing a crossword in spanish at the same time?
Person 2: I'm afraid that's the truth, yes.
Person 1: Poor man, looks like a serious case of neuro-defragmentation
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)