A humorous blokey northern English exclamation.
Spoken ironically when delivering an unwanted gift or gesture, such as when throwing a drinking partner's coat at his head when it's time to move pubs, or cutting up other vehicles in traffic.
Always intended to raise a laugh.
Originally heard outside Manchester in a UK TV beer ad, where a comedian called Peter Kay joins in a fancy-footwork soccer practice but kicks the ball very hard and scores, shouting 'Ave iiiiiiiiiit!!'
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)