An otter-like animal that lives in muddy areas. The animal coats itself in a muddy camoflauge and lays on the mud facing up. When a hog, or pig, comes to roll around in the mud, the hogsquasher grasps it and breaks its spine, later dragging it to its den do dine on its flesh.
"The hogsquasher got the last of Crazy Joe's pigs on Wednesday last."
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)