A nature-lover who champions the fauna over the flora (for latter see "tree hugger"). Hyperbole often used as a deprecating reference to those in the "environmental extremist" camp.
He shared his hunting pictures around the office mostly to enjoy the horrified look on the Bunny Huggers' faces.
An activist, a bleeding-heart liberal, a person concerned about the plight of others. A bunnyhugger is distinct from a treehugger in that they want to save humanity or the animals, as opposed to the environment.
Our plan to build a six-lane highway through the countryside was scuppered by a 'save the flying squirrels' campaign by the local bunnyhuggers.
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)