1. Something that causes consternation.
2. A difficult, annoying or time consuming task.
3. To experience the sensation of pain in one's rectum.
1. Old people in supermarkets are a real arse ache.
2. Putting up that tent is going to be an absolute arse ache.
3. I didn't crap for a week and now I have a major arse ache.
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)