a large man (effectively), who adopts the stylings of an emo or nerd (i.e. black rimmed glasses, stripy sweater, sensitive hair).
wan teenage girls with short red hair and shawls will see his gimlet eyes, strong shoulders and thick arms, but sense a betrayal of the small, scared child inside. not only has this man got a physique to protect her from the world, but also the heart of a poet.
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)