When someone tells you something you have absolutely no interest in and in expressing your lack of caring you circle your face with your finger to show you've made no change in emotion.
Person 1: I bought a new Car Today!!!!!
Person 2: That's awesome! (sarcastically whilst performing a circle-face)
Referenced usually in hockey. When a participant is cut somewhere (usually the head), falls to their knees or is laid out and bleeds onto the ice. Making their own 'faceoff circle'. Similar to other red circular 'faceoff circles' on the ice.
Christ!, did you see Malarchuk get cut last night, he left his own 'faceoff circle' in the crease with his blood.
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)