Derogatory term for an extremely biggoted person from the South, who acts in a condescending or even threatening way towards anyone not of Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Celtic ancestry.
Word often used by Blacks, who have the misfortune of running into someone who is biggoted.
The term originates from the practice in some Southern states of eating kaolin, a kind of clay which is said to ease digestion.
Did you hear that mudeater? Couldn't stop talking about how the Mexicans were stealing his job. Did you hear what he called Thomas? The nerve of that asshole!
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)