1. Noun: Sword (in the epic series by Fred Saberhagen) which made its bearer lucky. Not lucky like with the ladies, but mad lucky like someone attacking him would trip on a piece of paper and be impaled through the eye by a randomly bouncing pencil lucky.
Dave slept, but Coinspinner protected him by generating (weeks in advance) an odd strain of ecoli which laid dormant in his attackers stomachs until they tried to attack... they were then seized with the exploding hershey squirts and terminal technicolor yawns.
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)