An experimental apparatus that converts raw natural catfishmeat into clean, edible, refined tuna. Usually canned for longevity so it can be consumed for nutrients on above and below water adventures.
Sir, if we don’t get the catfish tunalizer back online, everyone in the sub we made out of an old glycol absorber is going to starve.
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)