A place upon the mountain where a Knott resides. Knott is an old english term referring to a mountain top, or ridgeline. Knotts Landing should have a good vantage to survey the valley or lowlands below. Coined from the Scottish Highlanders and the brothers of thistle.
"Lets go to Knotts Landing"
"Lets not and say we did."
"What is the fun in that?"
"I dunno lets just go to 'the lil wal' and wait for him there instead."
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)