a word that originated in Pequannock, New Jersey, that has no real meaning.
A sweater monkey is not an insult, nor is it something to be proud about. It is a great way to annoy your friends though. Continuously call them a sweater monkey throughout the day and they will probably get angry, which is usually funny.
They WILL ask what it is, and you're response is,"YOU! you are a sewater monkey."
(adj.) A description of, or having the qualities of, a male that one should have dated in high school, but did not. Used most often as a term describing regret.
Leslie: "Hey, do you remember Jeremiah from homeroom?"
Jennifer: "Yeah, he was so monkey sweater-vest. I feel like an idiot for not hooking up with him."
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)