comes from the words, "almost", and "stabbed", "stabbed" is turned into "stabben" by the speaker who is too scared to speak correctly. It is said by somebody who was mugged, attacked, etc. by an assailant using a sharp object as a main weapon, but escaped and returned to his crew, then still shaken, tries to tell them what just happened.
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)