Figurative way of describing someone who is always very serious and keeps their stern and proper composure, they will never try to have fun and will take every single rule very seriously.
Me at 10:03pm: Yo let’s go chill at the pool area it’s a really nice night here in Miami
My friend: hello we would like to go to the pool area
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)