A grotesque lack of general knowledge related to the American state of Michigan. Not knowing things like the fact that Michigan has two separate peninsulas and 3200 miles of Great Lakes coastline. People who are Michignorant can’t even point Michigan out on a map despite the giant, waving hand that is the Lower Peninsula.
Billy thinks that a “party store” is where you buy streamers and balloons and not bread, beer smokes or pop. Talk about michignorance!
I’m tired of explaining to the michignorant that there is no “south Detroit.”
Billy is michignorant. He thinks that “Up North” means Canada and not northern Michigan excluding the Upper Peninsula.
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)