Someone who is constantly affected mentally by their failures, so much to the point where one becomes numb to the pain and is now using past failures as fuel to achieve what they’re striving for.
Me: Yo bro, when I think about it, I’m a really sysyphean person
Bro: Wym?
Me: It means I use my past failures as fuel for what I strive for
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)