something you say right before or after saying something arrogant to acknowledge it and therefore not seem like an ass. (similar to how one uses "no homo" or "no offense")
can also be used to call other people on their arrogance (see 'you have nice legs')
"my science project went so well! I think mine was the best in the class...and I have nice legs"
"I have nice legs but damn I look hot with this new hairdo"
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)