A zvanua is an articulate individual who is very fussy with food and is also addicted to buying second hand designer clothes. She’s an academic by nature and an elite athlete. Above all she means well even if her jokes aren’t funny most of the time.
I was in a restaurant the other day and noticed a zvanua on the table next to me. She was dressed from head to toe in vintage sporty clothes and was eating fresh almonds with salt.
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)