a nice synonym used for conservative boxheads, derived from the fact that conservative people think a rainbow on one's ear would ruin one's face
- omg have you heard that Bob opposes same sex marriage?
- are you serious? i thought having one's ear on one's face was already out of fashion..
- nah, he and Cynthia still totally have their ears on their faces
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)