"Hey June, how long has Klyde been out there holding the door?"
"Oh I don't know, probably going on three days now."
"Why is he doing it?"
"I don't know, he won't tell me. All I know as that it started with me bringing in the groceries the other day and it hasn't subsisted since."
"Wow--odd--well all he said was 'hodor, hodor' when I asked him."
"I know, I tell ya what, he's on the quick path to hodoring his way to an early grave if he keeps that shit up."
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)