Adjective common around the Northern England gay community. Used to describe how attractive a straight male is without attracting attention. Discreet way of hitting on a straight male to his face
Max: that guy is a bare dosser Translation: that guy is really fit (sexual)
Ed: you are a bare dosser Tom: I'm sorry (not registered he is being hit on)
It is used as: Bare (dosser)- most commonly but the word in bracket can be changed.
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)