- interjection sometimes offensive, religious people will use this curse instead of so they will not take the Lords name in vain. It is also a Pop-culture reference to the comic book 'Superman' which took the allegory of Moses and Jesus Christ from the Bible and made Clark Kent's superhero alter-ego.
A Roman Catholic School Girl would shout out "Clark Kent on a cross!" after stubbing her toe, so not to offend a preist or a nun, much.
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)