An individual, typically a young skinny white guy, who refuses to wear long pants—even in the harshest winter weather—foregoing any explanation beyond "It's not cold."
“Did you see Norris tromping through the snowtoday in his shorts?”
“Yeah, he’s a textbook case of a shortaholic.”
Normally occurs in 6ft+ people, it helps that they can't even see us most of the time...
Kiddy 1: Oi bruv 'ave you seen that lil' shorty anywhere?
Tall kid: Nah bruv I 'aven't bothered lookin' down in a while, I don't wan' a panic attack. I 'ave shortphobia rememba'?
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)