The practice of being conceited. This is also the practice of finding oneself so ridiculously good looking that you fall in love with yourself and no one else. Symptoms may include, but are not limited to, cockiness, looking in the mirror excessively, talking about yourself constantly, bragging about your hair cut and man sweater, and last but not least, thinking highly of one's abilities.
"Have you ever wondered if there was more to life, other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking?"
A female violinist who is in charge of the entire orchestra, and who outwardsly displays her authority, and opinions to the usually more pompous conductor. She apparently kicked the butts off of the other violinists (including male violinists) to get her prominent position.
The concertmistress wore a gorgeousdress, that would have looked better on a more humble soloist.
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)