also Post-Phonum Depression; a relentless slide into self-hatred triggered by the loss or breakage of a phone, laptop or other high-ticket item -- often electronics. Symptoms include feeling that you don't deserve nice things, guilt, unnecessary introspection, and a desire to purchase an OtterBox.
"Why is Rachel sobbing in the corner at a party?"
"She just dropped her iPhone on the floor and entered Broken Phone Syndrome. I'll book an Apple Store appointment, you go over there and tell her what a good person she is."
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)