A slang used by Singaporean teens which is thrown at classmates to mock their fathers who fit in the stereotype of a drunkard Property Agent in his late 40s preferably with tattoos. Slang came into popularity in 2019 in schools.
Person 1: Dude your dad is such a Cornelius Yap
Person 2: Fuck off I know my dad sounds like a faggot and drinks but please stop with the slander 😭.
A term used to describe a businessman in his late 40s in Singapore. The person usually has kids, tattoos, a drinking addiction, has a funny voice and wears rectangular glasses. This term came into popularity around 2019 where teenagers from schools threw this term at students fathers who for the description.
Person 1: Dude your dad is such a Cornelius Yap
Person 2: oh most definitely his drinking addiction keeps me up all night
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)