Oh baby, I would love to give you a good rogering, but after our amazing day out on the reef, I'm afraid I'm suffering from a bad case of diverdickulitis.
When your colon is soooo full from all the holiday food and drinking that your colonic pockets fill up and get infected so bad that you have to go to the hospital
Diverticulitis Christmas: As in “damn that turkey, gravy, stuffing, cheese puffs, red wine, cranberry sauce, trifle, and Christmas cookies were so good that I plugged myself up and got diverticulitis.”
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)