Anthoney. He comes off as funny, actually he really doesn’t, he just wants to. He seeks an exuberant amount of attention that he lacks at home unless it’s his mother telling him he’ll be a football player (he won’t). He believes every girl is in love with him and you can never see his eyebrows.
“Yo you heard what happened to Anthoney”
“What?”
“He fell out of his chair and broke 10 bones in his body!”
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)