Staring in a sleepy way. Looking at a person or object, but being oblivious to who they are, what they are saying, where they are, where you are, what you are doing, and who you are. Mouth open, eyes aloof.
Try not to trinistare.
She is trinistaring hard.
Do the trinistare.
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)