A word given to shorten the name of the all girls Afrikaans school in Pretoria, South Africa. The boys school on the other side of the rode how ever, are not Affies. A person can only be a Affie if she is true to her school and herself. A Affie girl will always greet other people and behave with respect to those around her.
Used to describe a student: a Affie
Used to describe the school: Affies
Person 1:“Did you see the Affie girls?”
Person 2:”Yes, all the students in Affies have the best manners!”
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)