1. The waters used to desalt codfish during it's preparation. Codfish should be immerse in cold water, in the proportions of 2/3 water to 1/3 codfish, during several hours. The water should be renewed every 6-8 hours.
2. Forgotten; to remain the same, stalled; a situation or plan that didn't progress.
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)