1. To lose one’s breath and/or hyperventilate due to a sudden, acute and/or painful evacuation of the colon. 2. When you are out of breath from force-dropping a deuce.
Question: “Dude, were you just doing pushups in that bathroom... cause you’re like totally out of breath and your eyes are watering?!" (Out of Breath) Answer: "No... I’m just… SHANTING… that’s all… Best not… go in there… for 20 minutes.”
The act of saying illogical things, accompanied by an idiotic smile and expression.
Person 1: "Hey, can you pick me up first then pick up Michael?"
Person 2 (Nerses): "Why would I do that, Michael lives a street away you live across town?"
"Sorry, I was shanting."
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)