A word used to describe violent or uncontrolable laughter. It may include gasping, drooling, snorting, or clutching of the torso.
Haley slaftered so much she drooled over her books.
The slaftering was so contagious people became horrendously hysterical.
The joke was so funny I slaftered almost a day afterwards at the thought of it.
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)