the slightly malicious feeling of joy experienced by people living in warmer climates upon seeing massive, crippling snowfall amounts elsewhere in the country.
Etymology: After the German Schadenfreude, Schaden (damage) + Freude (joy).
Viewing images from the East Coast's Snowmageddon, Chad experienced a fleeting sense of snowenfreude.
Displaying transatlantic snowdenfreude, CNN and BBC eagerly reported on snow-related travel chaos in England and America, while ignoring the same problems at home.
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)