A state of not actually knowing anything useful or accurate about something, but insisting that you do in fact know scores on the subject matter in question.
Typically displayed by managers, belligerent ludites and salesmen.
I asked our nowledgeable server vendor for a quote on new CPUs for my DB server. Now I've got a quote on threeSANs and SAP....
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)