Some think it’s related to amala(Yoruba food) but NO! It’s the most awesome igbo name which means Grace of God, though in some Igbo dialect it’s pronounced AMARACHUKWU which means the same but different dialect. When an igbo person tells you the name is AMALA don’t be a bastard and refer it to the Yoruba food!
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)