This is a term which has been carefully refined over the past century. Originating from the expression 'udder on a pole', this phrase came into usage in polite society in the late 20th century.
Meaning: You are daft. Affectionate insult.
Emma: i think Dave fancies you..
Claire: Ahh, ye nipple on a stick, ye.
Originating from the age old saying 'udder on a pole', this phrase has been refined through the ages to the slick, user freindly version we present to you here.
Affectionate insult.
Emma: Claire, are you in denial?
Claire: Ahh, ye nipple on a stick, ye.
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)