An extreme state of tiredness or lightheadedness in which someone would burst out laughing at anything and everything, even if it isn't funny.
The phrase was named after the "spoon test" - a method of diagnosing such a state. In the test, the word "spoon" would be uttered randomly and without context to the person in question. If said person would burst out laughing, you know they're in a spoon mode.
Dave was in a total spoon mode yesterday, he even laughed at Emma's jokes.
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)
church hurt is where you experience a degree of distance, pain, or judgement from your church community. Essentially, you are just unable to “find your place”. This is prevalent in the Christian community, but can be extended to other religions.
Now that I am an adult I am beginning to heal from the church hurt that was inflicted on me as a child.