When he suddenly appeared unable to pronounce the "th", "r" and "l" sounds of his native English language and his voice became an octave higher, we were worried.
When he started wearing a rice hat, bought a Wok and enrolled in the Computer Science program at the university, we knew we were dealing with yet another Winkster.
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)