A non-committal relationship formed purely for convenience. Two people aren’t dating, they aren’t “just friends,” and they definitely aren’t soulmates. They simply fulfill each other’s emotional or physical needs when it’s practical. No deep feelings, no long-term plans, just seasonal or situational companionship.
It’s the relationship equivalent of a pop-up store: appears when you need it, disappears when you don’t.
Example:
“We’re not dating. We’re in a convenienceship. He shows up during holidays, my plus one to events, accompanies me to places when i am bored and wish I had a boyfriend.”
Usage:
“I don’t want a boyfriend, I want a convenienceship. Someone who’s there for winters, movies, and emotional emergencies, then goes home before the feelings develop.”
The type of relationship that, if convenient, is a friendship. However, a convenientship is broken if one party goes out of their way to converse or anything else that is friendship related.
Jesse and I totally have a convenientship, we never stay in touch but if he's around town we're friends.
If there are two 'friends' who have a friendship but only one of them puts effort into this friendship while the other one only puts in effort when its convenient for them. Therefore turning this friendship into a convienceship.
Cory is always trying to hang out with Niki, but Niki only wants to hang out when its convenient for her. I guess they are in a convienceship now.
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)