A freeswimming infant form of sessile aquatic life. So called because of its whiplike protrusions which vaguely resemble the snakes that formed Medusa's hair.
"After self-fertilization, a single celled medusae is formed. This form is free to swim around, until it finds a suitable location, whereupon it will attach itself permanently and develop in to the sessile polyp form."
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)