A common word used in reference to a specific type of feminine hygiene product, that is often flushed down the toilet, causing said toilet to clog. Also known as a tampon.
Father to Plumber-Guy: "Have you found what's clogged up the toilet again?"
Plumber Guy: "Not yet..."
Father: "Better not be them damn cooter plugs!"
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)