point of origin unknown! Is a new phrase used to describe ones attire and general style. They think they are original but in reality by trying to be different they actually fail! Comes fomr people who think chicken mayo is an individual filling of sandwich.
Bob's hair is so chicken mayo Fanny thinks that she is so individual but actually she is a complete chicken mayo!
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)