n. (Inf.) The layer of subcutaneous insulation that enables the thermodynamically efficient gentleman to go about his business sans outerwear in February.
Aren’t you cold Steve? I’ve got three layers on and you’re mincing about in a T-shirt.
Ah but don’t forget I’ve got a lardigan on under this…
to smell like you just smoked thrity cartons of cigarettes while locked in a closet. Or to drive with the windows up while smoking to make your self smell like cigarettes
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)