A highly contagious mental disease caused by hanging around males down the shore with said illness. It's amongst the easiest to diagnose for what seems to look like full grown boyswill act like 5 year-olds when encountering something that they do not understand. Such things include but are not limited to; emotion, intelligence or anything to do with people who have a higher chance of success in life. Said syndrome has only one speculated cure, and it is not yet known, however growing up is highly recommended as treatment for alleviation of symptoms. The syndrome is speculated to also be genetically inherited, and seriousness increased in those harbinger the Y chromosome
high school boys in the back of that bus clearly have "Down the shore Male Syndrome (DTSMS) " they hate on girls that like a guy that they don't know.
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)