(noun, plural) seeking monetary compensation for a damaging amount of petty demands for insignificant shit from a boss or spouse
Shannon, if you don't take your foot off my grill about pulpy orange juice for the board meeting I'll sue you for demandages! I'll pick up your customary Arby's lunch, but I will NOT get you extra packets of their delicious trademark sauce!
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)