a beliveable yet untrue statement from a speaker, that is drunk with the excitement of their supposed ability to use big words.
an expression used to insult someone to their face about how they like to use big words because they think they are smart. thus using irony to get the sarcastic point across.
Smartass: I think you losers are Munificent abhorritions of society as we know it
Insulter: You are a Sophistical rhetorician inebriated by the exhuberance of his own verbosity!!!
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)