The word for "human" in the Elder Speech, used by elves in "The Witcher" series. As relations between humans and elves are hostile, the word is often directed as an insult.
"Did you see that littledh'oine whore? I like his kind best. Killing them is like pulling weeds. Strangely relaxing." - Iorveth
colm harmon living out his onion life, living in an onion house in roebuck castle, going to oniontown IT, studying onion maintenance, coming home to an onion brother and romancing his onion girlfriend, giving offspring to a field of onions
i met my friend "cletus" at the superstore the other day and he is kind of an onion. ohh no! he is not as much as the king onion of oniontown whose nickname is colm harmon. ohh no i knew that cletus is not as much of an onion as colm harmon. ye definitely, colm is what we call an "a h-óinéain" but cletus is still a bit of an onion
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)