An exclamation used equally in times of excitement and frustration, designed to cause a similar feeling in the one to whom it has been said, yet utterly failing to do so. Originally used in Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice'
1) Anger: ie, upon finding out your husband has just told your daughter he will never speak to her again should she marry someone you feel is a suitable match: "Oh, Mr BENNET!"
2) Delight: ie, upon finding your daughter is going to marry one of the most eligible men in the country, although he may own the miserable half of Derbyshire: "Oh, Mr BENNET!"
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)