The enabling neighbor; A grown man that may be considered a ‘bad influence’ by his neighbor’s wife on her husband. A trigger man or catalyst for enabling your suppressed bad habits to flourish through all hours of the night. An eneighborer will lure you over to his house for ‘one drink’ with music and nice patio lights and before you know it, you’re piss drunk trying to find your way home even though it’s right next door. On a Tuesday.
Whoa, slept in til noon again. This headache. Why you gotta be such an eneighborer, Mike?! I love you man.
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)