Sic (after awhile) In southern appalachia, it can mean anywhere between two hours and two days.
(It’s 7:00pm, spoken over the phone) “Tell her to shut the hell up, I’ll be there atter ‘while!”. Shows up at 10 or 11 the next day, either hungover or comin’ down (maybe with a boner).
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)