A romantic comedy or dramatic adventure where characters dance around blossoming emotions only to come face to face with the last minute realization that they are in love. This is usually prefaced by uncomfortable and awkward moments where any outside audience is keenly aware of the subtle transformation while those specifically involved display a stubborn and often dispassionate aversion towards one another until an emotional epiphany is reached.
That movie was a real lovehanger. I knew the whole time they were going to hook 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)