a relatively incurable disease of the personality where no one knows as much as you, and must continually be told this. The only known cures are lobotomy or 38 special.
At the Directors annual physical the md found a very advanced case of arrogantasis. This explained why the Director spent a good portion of her time having to correct everyone else and was continually hoarse.
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)