An absolute unit, but is often dumb with the mental capacity of a pregnant squirrel. Nothing more, nothing less. Good at just one thing and terrible at everything else. Like a buffoon that spells buffoon with bafoon.
An absolute unit, but is often dumb with the mental capacity of a pregnant squirrel. Nothing more, nothing less. Good at just one thing and terrible at everything else. Like a buffoon that spells buffoon with bafoon.
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)