A rare disorder in which agency employees disappear for hours at a time, often returning dressed to the nines and carrying a large black porfolio case.
Norman-French origin, meaning “hunting ground,” “to hunt with spear” and or a “huntsman.”
Traditionally held hereditary office as huntsmen to the Dukes of Normandy. Organizing noble hunting.
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)