Onnaven is a rude boy that makes you wanna die. He is a player that dates girls just for the title of “having a girlfriend”. No one is really sure what his problem is but if you come across an Onnaven, run away while you can.
“I saw Onnaven the other day; I ran away. If I had stayed, I probably would’ve cried...”
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)