the name given to an individual who dips chewing tobacco in excess amounts. (1-2 pounds daily). caution: name is not to be given to the casual dipper. although dipping is rather uncommon in most social classes, only a "dip-dampus" can dip to the point of gum deterioration.
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Dude, thats your sixteenth tintoday. your definitely A dip-dampus!
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)