The act of saying "yes" to something someone has said to you after you have already stated you didn't hear the first time. You don't want to ask to hear again, so you just hope it isn't a question that will embarrass you by saying "yes" by.
When the nostalgia is so heavy, that you start to cry and regret the present. We all have had this feeling and always will do. You imagine the old parks and memories. Yeah, it was a great time, wasn't it?
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)