Term for a slightly less-than-average person only accepted by his peers because he/she boosts their self-esteem due to their ignorance or lack of intelligence. Also begs others to the extremities of their nerves for money/materials. Can be used as a nick-name or noun/pronoun.
Joe:hey Jackson, got any money i spent all mine on gummy bears & weed.
Jackson:(speaking to Walt). Gosh he really makes me mad hes such a Jew.
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)