A concentration of content where individuals act confident or unapologetic about situations that are clearly losses (L’s) and usually of their own making. It’s essentially a way of coping with failure by masking it as confidence or independence.
After getting rejected for the third time, Sarah posted a long rant about how she’s better off alone and doesn’t need anyone, which was just pure copelore.
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)