Once heard at a Mid-Summer Night's Dream, it has become my favorite word. In modern times it can be interpreted as a herpes sore. Not a very pleasant sight.
That cankerblossom on her lip told me that she got around.
Also:
Shne was b eing such a Cankerblossom last week when she slept with that one kid at a party.
a "blossom" of pus that comes out when a canker bursts. Usuallyused only in Shakespearean plays.
Midsummer Night’s Dream, 3.2.282-284. Herm. “O me! You juggler! You cankerblossom!/ You thief of love! What, have you come by night/ And stol’n my love’s heart from him?”
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)