A question in which the only answer can be yes or no. Any other answer is invalid, even if it is an extension on the yes or no answered. Extensions include reasons, conditions, explanations, or responses. Answering with anything else than yes or no,(maybe, I don't know, sort of, neither, kinda, both, etc.) is prohibited.
Incorrect:
1:Yes or no question, do you like pizza?
2:Sort of.
1:Yes or no question, do you like pizza?
2:Yes, but only pepperoni and cheese.
Correct:
1:Yes or no question, do you like pizza?
2:Yes
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)