someone, usually a woman, who tends to dress in a tacky way,without taking notice to how badly she looks, i.e; someone wearing fuschia vinyl pants with a tweed jacket and silk blouse is a texture monkey.
"Oh my god, look at that trailor trash texture monkey!"
"She is where pleather goes to die."
"Tammy faye is such a texture monkey!"
Someone who intends to or has completed an academic piece of work or endeavour by memorising information from a textbook, often leading to a shallow understanding of the topic.
"How did you get an A on the exam?"
"I just went over the textbook until I could recite it"
"You're definitely a textbook monkey"
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)