A process by which Scottish influence passes through to the a non-native Scotsman or non-Scottish person via binge-watching scottish tv shows.
Examples:
-unexplained increases in desire for alcohol, Tennent's and
-a crippling depression triggered by lack of local sources of Irn-Bru
-unexplained increases in propensity for foolish violence
-oonespleane fluxuatiouns en speech pattaerns
Yes, I have seen every Burnistoun episode 4 or more times.
No, I can't* explain why I bought 48 cans of Tennents and a case of Irn-Bru; it's like my Scottish heritage has increased dramatically, through scotchmosis, as it were.
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)