A phrasal verb often used in a sharehouse by a tidier housemate to a less tidy housemate, softly indicating an immediate or planned cleaning of the shared house.
Gareth: Hey mate, happy birthday!
Aaron: Cheers mate
Aaron: Hey we need to have a spruce moose bro, there are people coming over
Gareth: Ah, true
Spruce Moose, the tall guy who walks with a swagger and drools a lot, frequently found talking on his cell phone to nobody. Yelling out obcenities such as "hit that pussy" "Thats easy pussy" and the ever so popular "I already hit that pussy". You can find this man walking on the bridge by himself after the club closes.
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)