A sneaky piece of shit; trash. Someone who belongs to the lower class and often exhibits obnoxious, asinine behavior.
1.) Bill: "Hey, did you hear that Tom isn't paying his child support?"
Bob: "Yeah, he's such an ass-rattler!"
2.) John: "Don't go into town!"
George: "Why?"
John: "The ass-rattlers are gathering there tonight."
George: "Woah, thanks for the warning! I can't stand ass-rattlers, they're the worst!"
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)