Backyard sport created in the fields of Frear Park in Troy New York. Gameplay involves a team of 3-30 individuals attempting to keep a large bouncy ball in the air with thier feet, shins, knees, torso, face, head, and/or back. No use of the hands or arms is allowed. The entire team keeps score by counting how many hits have taken place. If the ball touches the ground or an arm the count is begun again. Highest score wins.
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)