when a self-absorbed a-hole tells someone his or her version of the truth without any regard for the person's feelings or self-esteem; usually done for the sole entertainment and self-fulfillment of the speaker with no benefit to the recipient except for reduced self-esteem (who needs self-esteem, really?)
I'll just be brutally honest, your not as pretty as your friend and that is why he left you for her.
Instead of being an honest abe, your more brutally honest like vp joe biden, and tend to say stuff without thinking it through, often hurting others feelings while being honest at the same time
Dan: Yo man, wanna go to that club we went to last time
Mike: No thanks, that place was fuckingdisgusting and the girls were too sluty for even a desperater loser! What, were ya looking to get another cheap slut?
Dan: ... Coulda just said no instead of being a Brutally Honest Joe man!
Mike: Sorry bro
Dan: It's all good, we'll just find another place
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)