A generallygood person, who constantly doubts them self.
Someone who apologises even when they’re not in the wrong.
“Listen Amanda, you have every right to be at the party. Don’t be such a sorry lorry.”
“I took a took a trip to London and noticed that everyone says sorry even if they’re the one who gets bumped into. What a bunch of Sorry Lorrys.”
“I made you a cake...Sorry if I’m being a ‘Sorry Lorry’ but you probably think I’m silly for making it... plus I forgot that your favourite colour is blue. I’m sorry”
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)