So dazzlingly beautiful that it overwhelms the senses, evoking both awe and an unsettling, almost dangerous intensity. A fusion of luminous (radiant, glowing) and noxious (overpowering, potentially hazardous).
Example: The sight of the endless glowing sea under the blood-red eclipse was luminoxious—breathtaking yet terrifying in its unnatural splendor.
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)