1. Type of bomb, characterized by a loud, shrill screaming sound.
2. A type of firework, also characterized by a loud, shrill screaming sound.
3. A term used to convey how frightened you are. Commonly used in place of, or along with:
Heebie Jeebies
Booboo Jeebies
Quiver Shivers
Hoohaa Quivers
Shaky Shivers
and Scooby shivers (named for the shaking that the cartoon character Scooby Doo is prone to do when frightened)
Also, used in place of shorter terms, such as:
Creeps
Shivers
or shakes
"To get rid of the enemy, screaming meemies were used to destroy the area."
"The screaming meemies were so loud that they made my ears ring."
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)