(n.) A passive aggressiveargument between roommates, conducted when both parties continually refuse to take the trash out.
The resulting odor can lead to a household crisis, with general evacuation and avoidance of the common areas for the duration of the conflict. Can last for several days or, if stubborn, months.
Lisa: I'm near yours, can I stop by?
Tom: Wear a gas mask, we are enduring garbage bin chemical warfare.
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)