A person who really knows to to bend one's yakels. Sometimes...there's too much yakeling and not enough bending.
A politically correct term, when ballbreaker is unacceptable.
Nut Cracker?
As a customer, Mrs. Berman was a real yakelbender. She yakeled about the price and she bended about the color. But in the end, she bought. A sofa and a loveseat.
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)