1. Pretentiousmale-like display meant to impress others
2. boastful male-like showiness
3. male-like tendency to respond in a more serious manner than a situation calls for, particularly when one's aura of dominance is threatened.
Brian was too busy maintaining his testentation to enjoy the casual remark about his shoe size and it's correlation to something unidentified.
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)