Scaredcity: A state or feeling where the fear of scarcity or lack triggers anxiety or apprehension, often influencing behavior and decision-making.
1. Facing the dwindling resources of her startup, Jenna felt a deep sense of scaredcity, fearing they wouldn't make it through the next quarter.
2. The continuous news about global water shortages filled him with scaredcity, prompting him to invest in sustainable living practices.
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)