When a person writes an obviously incorrect statement or joke after making a statement they genuinely believed was correct. This often happens when they share misinformation they thought was true, after getting corrected they add a joke or exaggeration to make it seem like they knew they were wrong, even though they didn’t.
Person A: Minecraft was made in 2000. (Incorrect statement that Person A believes)
Person B: No, It was made in 2009. (Person B corrects them)
Person A: Also dogs and cats can fly and shoot lasers out their eyes! (Obviously incorrect statement used to make people think they were joking the whole time)
Person B: Stop making Jokexcuses!
When a person says something stupid and then tries to recover by calling it a joke, even though it clearly wasn't.
Guy 1: "Apple was first created about a year before the first iPhone came out."
Guy 2: "No, it was created in 1976." *Showes Wikipedia page*
Guy 1: "Haha calm down, I was only joking."
Guy 2: "Stop jokexcuseing, just accept your mistake."
Guy 1: "But I knew it was in 1976, I was just joking."
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)