Used to describe someone who is not fully retarded (as in someone who cannot successfully use the restroom without supervision), but is retarded enough to cause them to make extremely bad judgment calls. Usually a semi-retard is capable of regular activities but often decides to do something really, incredibly stupid that either injures them or makes them a spectacle.
O.J. is semi-retarded for thinking that "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" after his crime.
Bryson: (Mad because he got cut by a breaking bit when trying to drill through a concrete block)
You: What the hell Bob?! Are you semi-retarded?
1. When someone is barely retarded but does something really weird and stupid, he is semi-retarded.
2. When someone is completely right with their opinion, but only you disagree, so you consider him semi-retarded.
That one guy Michael, he is semi-retarded for thinking pee is stored in the balls!
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)