a vertically challenged male obsessed with tall females. Term comes from mountaineering the practice of climbing to elevated points for sport, pleasure, or research.
Looking down at the near midget humping her leg on the dance floor, Brigitte knew in an instant that he suffered from Mt. Everest Syndrome and it was going to be a long night.
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)