Someone whose motivations are persistently ambiguous and might be untrustworthy on the whole. The term is believed to have originated from that of a shifty Soviet scoundrel whom often auctioned himself off to overweight Italian sewage maintenance workers for reasons unknown.
"I just realized last night that David has been purloining all my finely smokedsandwich meats and padding the inside of his tighty whities with them. A true Gidrovlicheskiy, that feller is."
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)