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Needum
A Needum is a dear friend of many years, a friend who may be closer than family members. This friendship transcends time and geographic distance.
Needum is not a romantic relationship.
Needum may occasionally be shortened to "Needs." Two people who are Needums or Needs to each other may engage in jibberish based on their shared experiences, which is unintelligible to others.
See also bestfriend; bestie; twinglish.
Needum is not a romantic relationship.
Needum may occasionally be shortened to "Needs." Two people who are Needums or Needs to each other may engage in jibberish based on their shared experiences, which is unintelligible to others.
See also bestfriend; bestie; twinglish.
fogey
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!
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)