A person who is unsocial and rarely leaves the house, taken from the root 'vegtable' as when someone is crippled or paralysed and cant do anything.
Vita is the italian word for life.
so basically lifevegatble.
"hey why isnt she coming out tonight?"
"because she's a vitavegtable,"
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 OβConnelβs time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before OβConnel 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)