1. Not blind
2. One who receives state assistance or preferential treatment ostensibly for poor eyesight or impaired vision
3. A panhandler who sports the accoutrements of the sightless: a seeing eye dog, dark tinted eyeglasses, a cane , a tin cup, and a hand-lettered sign soliciting donations from the public, but whose eyesight within normal range. A beggar who feigns blindness.
4. One who wears eyeglasses and exploits and exaggerates the condition as a disability that requires government assistance, financial or otherwise.
My cabdriver told us "being legally blind has a lot of bennies" such as "they can't fire me for having too many accidents"
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)