The act of making fun of, or teasing somebody. Although rather than using mean words, they pretend to be nice because they think it's hilarious.
Sometimes, the victim is oblivious to this and actually accepts the compliments.
Patrick: Hi Michelle! You have gorgeous freckles.
Michelle: Awh, shucks! Thanks Patrick!
Patrick: And I totally love your red hair too.
Michelle: You're so nice!
Alice: Poor girl. Patrick's making fun of in a nice way
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)