Fear of studying, specifically fear of studying at the Homer D. Babbidge Library at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, UCONN.
Less frequently used to describe a person who purports to be well read, but who in fact has never read the classics and reads nothing but modern cheesy novels.
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Fern: Chris follows Liz everywhere but the library.
Dave: Yeah that homerphobic dumbass will be lucky if he gets a 2.0 GPA.
Dexter didn’t believe me when I told him Duckman’s son was named after a character in the Iliad, proving him to be a complete homerphobe.
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)