Person who empties the dunny. The dunny was an Australian slang word for an outhouse or toilet tank which was used when there was no septic system or sewer to dispose of human waste.
Person who empties the dunny. The dunny was an Australian slang word for an outhouse or toilet tank which was used when there was no septic system or sewer to dispose of human waste.
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)