Very recent Canadian slang used when a person or a group of people get into trouble or an altercation and defend their actions by stating "but we had a bouncy castle". It came from the trucker convoy in Ottawa in 2022 when some participants excused their bad behaviour by stating there was a bouncy castle set up for the kids.
Used sarcastically when younger people get drunk and/or a party gets out of hand and the police show up.
Sorry Officer, we didn't mean to wake up the neighbourhood or cause any grief. We even set up a bouncy castle.
Catholicparents who, while no longer ascribing to the Catholic faith or ever attending mass will insist on their children receiving the sacrments of baptism, communion and conformation. So called because the event is more about the party that follows, which will always involve the renting out of a bouncy castle.
Tom and Julie are bouncy castle Catholics- you never seen them once at mass and yet here they are for their kids' communion.
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)