Laughing at another person's remark. Not because it is funny but because you want that person to like you. Usually done in a group setting where the most popular person in the group makes a demeaning remark about someone outside the group and the whole group scottles at it to be perceived more valuable.
"Look at Macy, her shoes are sooo yesterday!", said Heather as the rest of her entourage was scottling along.
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)