En klaphat (sb.) er en dansk opfindelse, der bruges til at klappe til fodboldkampe - dog uden sine hænder. Man trækker i en snor, og så klapper plastikhænderne på toppen af hatten.
Klaphat kan også bruges som skældsord. Ordet er ofte anvendt som stedfortræder for “idiot”.
“Din forbandede klaphat!”
“Jeg fatter ikke, at mankan være sådan en klaphat.”
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)