car-TON-ic (adj): A condition where an appearance or an occurrence possesses or takes-on qualities most often associated with cartoons. For instance, when a mouse literally smashes a cat's face flat with an ironing board; alternatively, an individual with an hilariously bulbous nose and a bubbly voice.
1. I stubbed my toe which then swelled up to cartonic proportions.
2. I saw Penelope Cruz in person and my tongue actually dropped to the floor and rolled out like a little red carpet with its own tiny paparazzi. It was sorta cartonic.
3. My cartonic grandfather is rather diminutive, blue, has a beard, wears a red cap with matching pants and no shirt.
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)