Jail slang for "boogey man" Misspelling of the word "Babadook" which also means boogey man/men but in Polish terms.
If you're attacked by the Babadook, just flick some holy water at him, if you encounter a Babadick, you're screwed, literally. Luckily, the only place you could encounter a Babadick is in prison.
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)