noun Pronounced "vye-bray-sham"
The sensation of feeling your cellphone vibrate in your pocket when it is, in fact, not vibrating. Can be caused by muscle spasm or can be a totally phantom sensation.
Frank dug his hand into his pocket, pulling out his phone but, alas, it had not rung and he had only felt a vibrasham.
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)