1. A persons seemungly “natural” non-desirable personality trait.
2. To exhibit contrary, undesirable, nerve-damaging behavior on a consistent basis so as to repell versus attract as would one with an effervescent personality.
3. A state of being that can be “brought about” via someone or circumstance that “gets on your nerves.”
Well, I TRIED to speak, but APPARENTLY somebody is feeling a bit HEIFERvescent!
I mean she IS in customer service—how does she get all HEIFERvescent ‘cause somebody asked her a question???
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)