the tendency of going too high on top and then way too low on the ground typical for women and people with unstable phyche and very overactive imagination which is causing from time to time a kind of nuisance to friends and colleauges who have no idea what's going on
Come on boy, forget it, she's just like that, sometimes this out-of-balance behaviour, we've got used to that already
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)