when a male or female, pretends to like the opposite sex, while also leading another to beilieving the same thing. Then afterwards only one gets the player. and the other one is left hanging.
jeff tells lisa he likes her. pretends to. while also telling his ex gf maggie he likes her. then chooses maggie over lisa. while lisa had no idea he liked two girls. therefore she was getting played.
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)