a long and/or angry rant that you didn't ask to listen to
etymology:
bitch (verb- to complain)
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dissertation (noun- lengthy research paper with citations)
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bitchertation
Giving advice to a new coworker: "Watch out for Tina- don't get trapped into conversations with her. One time, I just asked how her day was going and spent the rest of my lunch period listening to a bitchertation about kids nowadays"
After Terry's fifteen-minute long bitchertation against Taylor Swift and green M&Ms, the interviewer decided that this person is not a good candidate for the open position of town librarian
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 OβConnelβs time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before OβConnel 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)