1. To blunder repeatedly and expect a result differently the next time
2. To be fooled by one of your own
3. Spoil, botch, or bungle something over and over again and again
4. To blow it
The salesman promised the new car would get 27 miles per gallon but after driving it for a week I realized it was actually burning 20 miles per gallon. Looks like I have been ACPA'd in this deal
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)