breasts that are shallow to the point of almost being invisible - like those of a slim prepubescent or peri-pubescent girl. Breast buds are characterized by their shallowness (closeness to the chest), not by their narrowness. Long, narrow breasts are not breast buds.
Though Donna was in her mid-30s, she had dieted so assiduously that she had the body of a 14 year old ballerina and the barely perceptible breast buds of a prepubescent girl. However, when excited, her nipples became hard like two halves of an unripened plum.
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)