Elonery
The act of posting cryptic messages or memes on a social media platform in order to influence an audience.
Elonery by Woodrow Longfellow June 22, 2021
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Elonery
Elonery by Woodrow Longfellow June 22, 2021
elosery
Used to describe an ambiguously-worded statement or contract dat causes someone to "get da raw end of da deal" if he naively follows through on its apparent meaning.
fogey
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!
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)