Definition:
To formally clarify, declare, or confirm the existence, identity, or status of something.
Before I book anything, I need the teacher to acclare whether the trip is actually happening.
(The teacher needs to officially confirm if it’s real or not)
Definition:
To formally clarify, declare, or confirm the existence, identity, or status of something.
Before I book anything, I need the teacher to acclare whether the trip is actually happening.
(The teacher needs to officially confirm if it’s real or not)
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)