A cross between a swear and a promise… the true unbreakable bond.
The Scout's honor has long been believed to be the strongest of all oaths. While pledging this type of oath is unarguably powerful, it simply does not measure up to the bond formed by the lesser known swormise. The swormise can be used in many different scenarios, but typically is reserved for the most meaningful of vows. IT SHOULD NOT BE USED ALL WILLY NILLY!!! If a single swormise is broken, then all trust can be lost with very little possibly of ever rebuilding. Therefore, this is not for the faint of heart. The swormise is a truly beautiful thing and can build a love like never before.
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)