neoteny
neoteny by fuckmeandcallmebilly October 28, 2013
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neotony
The retention of your juvenile exuberance while growing into your awkwardly adult body. Maintaining the untamed Sawyer-Finn disposition that grates on the nerves of those near you who are trying to develop higher faculties within physiologically adult selves.
neotony by rodhandler December 22, 2003
fogey
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!
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)