When your friend either wants to spend a great deal of time with you, but doesn't have a lot time. Or feels obligated to see your face for five minutes, they will pop over for a very short time. Usually they will stay no longer than 15 minutes and try to sum up all of the events of their lives in the past week.
"Did you see your Grandpatoday?"
"Yeah, he did a Jody Swing By."
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)