(n)- an animal that moves so fast that it cannot be identified.
(n)- a figment of your imagination, a term used to describe something that you may or may not have seen.
(n)- this creature does not exist, nor has it ever existed.
We went around the curve and something jumped out in front of the car causing us to swerve and hit the pole. The responding officer asked what it was. Our reply was: "We don't really know. Perhaps it was a slopahoundasaurus."
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)