used to calm a person’s nerves as they plot murder. Best if taken on an empty stomach, and when you have gone many days without sleeping. The lack of sleep and food helps this “quick drink” to intoxicate you to the fullest extent possible, while still only having a small amount of alcohol. This is used to remedy stressed caused by killing those close to you in order to achieve personal ambitious goals.
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)