A Husband or Boyfriend a woman can show off to her friends to get their approval and make them jealous. A gold-diggers target. A Narcissist's wet dream.
She didn't love him, she was incapable of emotional involvement, he was a handbag husband, calculated to impress those she wanted people to see as her friends.
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)