intransitive verb:
1. To commit to purchase something from a fellow classmate, and then buying it from someone else
2. To be profusely sweaty in a cold room at 8 am
The wench committed to purchasing a t-shirt from me, but at the last minute, she pull a Sydney on me and bought one from another wench, leaving me out to dry ): !
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)