The state of being single "forever". Applies both to those who simply can't seem to be able to find someone to be with (involuntary permasingles) and to those who are purposefully choosing to be single for any number of reasons, such as career, asexuality, etc. (voluntary permasingles).
There may come a time when it becomes preferable to grab the bull by the horns and choose to be permasingle rather than to allow yourself to get devastated by disappointments after disappointment with all the wrong people.
Permajingle: the change at the bottom of your cup holder in your car and no matter how many times you put your hand in the cup holder to fix that damn noise it STILL JINGLES
Guy driving a car: ahhhhrrrrgg every time I hit a smallbump the permajingle drives me crazy!!
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)