Any type of testimony that is either given in a court of law, or possible testimony that is uttered to someone, solely to pester or intimidate a person. Can also refer to testimony that is later proven invalid or false.
I am so glad to hear that the court case was dropped, due to an overwhelming amount of pestimony that was discovered by the judge and jury.
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)