Any combination of airborne or suface-borne illnesses, contracted by the sharing of handheld electronic devices, D&D dice, cards or videogame controllers between various geeks of questionable hygiene. (Also See 'Nerd Flu')
Did you hear that 10,000 people came down with the Geek Crud after that gaming convention last week?
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)