A term to describe menstruation or periods. Originates from ancient greece in times when women were not allowed to participate in sports of any kind due to their menstruation . The term was coined when women decided their sport was taking place in their own bodies.
A term to describe menstruation or periods. Originates from ancient greece in times when women were not allowed to participate in sports of any kind due to their menstruation . The term was coined when women decided their sport was taking place in their own bodies.
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)