(a portmanteau of mental hyperventilate) To be overcome by an unstoppable flood of rapid, incoherent thoughts. Often leads to one of two verbal reactions: random babbling or frustrated, gape-mouthed silence.
When the company president greeted her in the elevator, Hillary hypermentalated for the entire length of the 39-floor ride.
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)