A verb to describe when an emotionally unavailable person (frequently a man) lacks the courage to end a relationship, and instead draws away emotionally and posts vaguely online about not wanting to be in the aforementioned relationship—perhaps going as far as to post Bob Dylan’s 1964 hit “It Ain’t Me, Babe”—without having actually broken up with their partner.
Ian hasn’t texted me in three days and I just looked at his story—I’m totally getting It Ain’t Me, Babe’d.
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)