A 19th century insult meaning Someone who is so foolish they’d consider putting a saddle on a goose which if you didn’t know, that’s a stupid and arbitrary idea.
“ A fool. Ever tried to saddle a goose? No. Which is exactly the point of this 19th-century slur: that you are as foolish as somebody who'd try something as pointless as putting a saddle on a goose.” -babbel.com
Now listen here you chuckaboo, do not hold disdane for my attractive physique. Perhaps if you groomed yourself more eloquently you would not find yourself a bachelor still. Even more so perhaps the young lady you courtwill return your correspondence when she tries of the surgeon or magistrate she fancies. SADDLE-GOOSE!
My homie, or best friend, companions that never stop being saddlegeese. There are only 2 in existence. I and one other are the creators. All else are imposters, sent to sabotage our great existence.
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)