Outwardly expressed feelings of shock, distress & anger when someone is told that something is going to cost way more than reasonably expected.
*you're getting your car serviced at the mechanic*
Mechanic: Your air filter is pretty dirty. We can replace it for around $40.
You: $40?! You trying to give me an Italian heart-attack?! Put it back, I can get that shit at Walmart for 8 bucks!
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)