when someone on a dating app uses pictures only with their hotter friends to hide their identity as the uglier friend in the group. they have no individual pictures on their profile.
"Bro this guy only has photos of him with his more attractive friends on his profile. I can just tell he's the short king with a bad haircut."
"It's because he's friend-masking!"
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)