Slang for 'a Fitzgibbons'. Rumor has it that a drunkard couldn't pronounce the 'bb' part of the name correctly and the word was coined. Referring to someone as "a Fitzginnons" is meant to insult by assosiation with the original Fitzgibbons, who famously laughed at his students when they left an exam review because he wouldn't give them the answers.
John was a real fitzginnons for not doing the prized athlete's homework for him.
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)