the act of making the names of all the continents uniform by respelling them in such a way that they end in 'ica' (except Africa and Antartica, which already end in 'ica'). Thus, North America becomes North Amrica, South America South Amrica, Europe Eurica, Asia Asica and Australia Austrica.
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)