adj. - contagious, addictive, esp. with music - not always used in a positive sense. Etymology: a "mashup" of the words contagious and Fious. Fious is a city in Cameroon, a West African nation with a substantial petroleum industry. In this context, the reference to Fious is a reference to the Western addiction to oil as an energy source, meaning that 'Fious' is used as a stand-in for 'addictive.'
Ex. "I don't really like that Diddysong, but it's so contafious."
adj. - contagious, addictive, esp. with music - not always used in a positive sense. Etymology: a "mashup" of the words contagious and Fious. Fious is a city in Cameroon, a West African nation with a substantial petroleum industry. In this context, the reference to Fious is a reference to the Western addiction to oil as an energy source, meaning that 'Fious' is used as a stand-in for 'addictive.'
Ex. "I don't really like that Diddysong, but it's so contafious."
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)