A sentence used to express approval of a particular person, most commonly a man. The sentence originated from the practice of the giving of cake as a reward for good service, traditionally in reference to a waiter in a restaurant. The sentence emerged as an EXACT, unexaggerated, direct quotation, and soon developed into essential urban lingo as it hit the proverbial 'streetz'.
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)