Mistake, another way to say messed up. Generally a simple mistake that can or will lead to a greater error. Associated with problems that can take a while to figure out. Including homework, research, art, anything with a challenging and everything in-between.
I really donked up my homework, I thought Hydrogen had two electrons when it really had one. I wish my teacher had pointed out my simple mistake earlier instead of handing me back my paper marked up with highlighted errors. D:
Part one of the wind up was in place. Part two required that we should prepare him to win her heart and be there to witness his attempt. The following afternoon we had him all dogged up in borrowed gear.
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)