1. A male homeowner who thinks he knows how to fix anything, so he refuses to hire anyone to make any repairs, thereby totally screwing things up much worse.
2. Same as #1, except he goes ahead and hires someone, yet tells the repairman how to do his job.
I'm an electrician, and I had a realTimTaylor for a customer today. He stood around and told me how to do my job his way, and wouldn't let me do my own work properly.
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)