Very drunk, lugholes meaning ears so of course drunk up to the ears, literally!
Expression common in South Wales
You shoulda seen Owen last night, he was hardly able to speak he was so drunk ......... he was standing by the bar, slugged up to his lugholes with a big bag of fish!
I always get slugged up to the lugholes on a Friday night!
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)