An alternativeword for an ophthalmologist. Originates from a code word during the American revolution.
Person 1: "I just went to the antholochegeste's office for a checkup."
Person 2: "Who's office?"
Person 1: "The antholochageste's"
Person 2: "That's not a real word"
Person 1: "Yes it is"
Person 2: "Are you sure?
Person 1: "Yep."
Person 2: "Well, you are the scientist"
Some know the word Antholochageste as eye doctors office, but that's not what it origionally meant.
It was originally a cool western cowboy code word for 'help me I'm being help hostage' or 'we need a divorce karin' oh boy imagine the look on your wifeKarin's face when you say 'antholochageste' and she thinks you're being held hostage!
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)