Verb. When frustration boils over into an explosive, unhinged rage fit, often with flailing, yelling, or dramatic storming off. Coined in family lore for those moments when logic checks out and pure chaos moves in.
Example: "The WiFi crapped out mid-stream, and I straight-up merped out—threw my controller like it owed me money."
Alternative: "Don't merp out over spilled coffee; it's just Tuesday."
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)