That mild feeling of dread that arises whilst watching a video, even the ones that seem super innocent at first. As that bar progresses the fear grows, you turn the volume down just in case, and yet you can’t stop watching.
I watched a video and I had major Tristanangst which was justified because at the end of the video there was a shortclip of someone getting a hard kick in the balls.
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)