A person who exploits the emotions of others through emotional abuse, psychological manipulation, or gaslighting.
The term was first coined upon the release of the 2023 Horror/Thriller Film, "Tearsucker."
"Sarah Brady's texts revealed to the world that Jonah Hill is a total tearsucker."
"I couldn't see the red flags until we had broken up...he was so charming and sweet at first, but in the end he turned out to be a tearsucker."
"That tearsucker was gaslighting her the whole time!"
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)