a woman who is smart, on top of her game, has her life together but is quite complex - full of dichotomies. She never knows if she's a wild woman or a domestic goddess (or both)!
I pulled a Dennell today when I went drag racing and then came home to bake brownies for my kid's school party tomorrow.
The act of taking bite-sized forkfuls of a previously cut pie in a straight line as if a knife had cut an additional slice. Well done, the next person to see the pie would not be able to detect any missing pie.
Late at night, Nancy O'Donnellized the chocolate pie. I could barely see the marks from the fork tines.
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)