Used as a promise, and can be used instead of on God. It is a promise that isn't broken, guaranteeing something to someone.
Stan-"Do these shoes look alright on me, I wanna wear them to Stephens 80th birthday tomotomo"
Freddy-"yeah mate, they look great"
Stan-"promise?"
Freddy-"one gorilla"
Used as a promise, and can be used instead of on God. It is a promise that isn't broken, guaranteeing something to someone.
Stan-"Do these shoes look alright on me, I wanna wear them to Stephens 80th birthday tomotomo"
Freddy-"yeah mate, they look great"
Stan-"promise?"
Freddy-"one gorilla"
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)