1) Adjective: Describing a person or situation where someone suffers severe unintended consequences from the malicious actions of a person or group who the sufferer foolishly supported in the belief that said malicious actor would only be malicious towards the sufferer’s enemies.
2) Noun: A person who suffers from the malicious actions of a person or group whom the sufferer supported and who has clearly advertised their malicious intent, despite the sufferer’s mistaken belief that they would be exempt from the malicious actions.
A: “Did you hear about Cletus? He voted for the new pro-business sheriff, and just got his farm shut down due to some obscure zoning ordinance. He’s being forced to sell out to MegaFarms, Inc.”
B: “That’s very leopardface.”
A: “Yep. He’s a complete leopardface. The biggest leopardfaced idiot there ever was.”
1) Adjective: A situation where a person suffers unexpected severe repercussions inflicted by a person or group whom they naively trusted and supported, despite said person or group clearly advertising their intent to take malicious actions.
2) Noun: A person who suffers unexpected severe repercussions inflicted by a person or group whom they naively trusted and supported, despite said person or group clearly advertising their intent to take malicious actions.
A: “Did you hear about Cletus? He voted for the new pro-business sheriff, and just got his farm shut down for some zoning violation. He’s being forced to sell out to MegaFarms Inc.”
B: “That’s very leopardface.”
A: “Yeah, he’s a leopardfaced idiot. The purest leopardface there has ever been. The leopards have truly eaten his face.”
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)