1. The time of the month when a man acts moody and generally pissed off for no apparent reason.
2. A period of moodiness for men similar to that associated with the female menstrual period which often corresponds to his wife or girlfriend's menstrual period.
1. Joe: "Hey Bob!"
Bob:"Screw you!"
Joe: "What's his problem?"
Andy: "Oh hes probly just on his manstrual period."
Joe: "Oh, it's that time of the month."
2. Boss: "I needed those projects done yesterday!"
Worker: "Whoa what's his problem?"
Co-Worker: "His wife's having her period."
Worker: "Oh, so he's having his manstrual period."
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)