The declaration that you will deliberately not watch something on television. As if you had a DVR that would avoid recording shows of dubious merit or that just plain stink.
"Dude, 'Dancing With the StarsVs. Food' is on tonight."
"Yeah, I think I'll negativo that."
Person 2 *pitches idea*
Person 1: that's a horrible idea
Person 2: WHY ARE YOU SO NEGATEIVE? All you do is negate negate negate. *Curses in mother tongue*
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)