American: "Why do you put that chocolate stuff on your bread rather than Jiff peanut butter?"
European/Wannabe European: "1. It's called Nutella. 2. Because I'm a Eurolitist. And 3. You're an idiot."
Referenced on a little known parenting website. Symptoms include regularly being rightly pissed off.
Not to be compared to Clairecitis which instantly renders its victims utterly humourless while lasting effects includes sanctimony, disdain and boredom.
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)