skigrod
skigrod by Lisa Marly November 2, 2007
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Skigroes
The African-American contingent that takes to the slopes to imbibe in either skiing or snowboarding.
I was recently in Aspen and the slopes were inundated with Skigroes attending the Brotherhood Ski Convention. They sure added much needed style to the slopes.
fogey
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!
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)