Performed using a sharp, knife-like object which is usually concealed in one's person, it is often used as an informal salutation or greeting toward others whom one is not in good standing with.
"I heard Andrew's gonna give his old mate Stephen a British Handshake next time they meet after that scrap they had at the pub last week"
Upon greeting a lady, a gentleman must place his hand in her cleavage and shake his hand to and fro to shake her breasts. To not do so is a horrible insult.
Did you hear that Mr. Darcy insulted Lady Jane by not greeting her with a BritishHandshake?
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)