A word very valuable in situations where you are playing Scrabble and wish to temporarily infuriate your opponent with your apprent complete disregard for the simple dictionary-based rules of the game, only to have them remark in your favour with a certain astonishment when they discover it really is a word.
"syzygy?! That's not a word!!"
"It is so! Go ahead look it up!"
"Alright..." (time passes as opponent flicks through the dictionary) "... God damnit..."
The near perfect linear alignment of 3 or more celestial bodies (as in the sunthe moon and the earth during a solar eclipse) in a gravatational system.
A total-harmony state achieved by a group of meditation-minded "in tune with the power of the Universe" hippies while engaged in perfectly-in-sync cutting/trimming of paper/fabric with "syzzors".
Performing syzzygy with your weed-puffing buddies can indeed be relaxing, but your hands get tired fairly soon from all of that synchronized snippin'.
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)