An act that makes a room look somewhat cleaner. When you lay sheets and blankets on a bed neatly for a completely pointless reason. This is a pointless act because in a matter of hours you will either take a nap in it, or at least 8 to 12 hours later you will be going back to sleep in it. Also useless because if it is behind closed doors, who is going to see it and who is going to care?
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)