The ability to intentionally annoy, agitate or otherwise aggravate another individual to a point of critical instability bordering on emotional breakdown.
Yer boss called and left a message for you. Seems like you've been accused of sexually abusing your secretary, embezzling from the widows and orphans fund and jerking off in your cubicle.
Are you fucking KIDDING ME!? I give my life to that company and THIS IS MY REWARD for 40 years of service?!
Who's got your goat?! haha!
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)