A humorous or skeptical term for electricity or electrical systems, especially when they seem confusing, unreliable, or mysteriously malfunctioning. A blend of “lecrick” (a colloquial form of electricity) and “trickery.”
“Old shed’s wired up funny, flip the switch in the kitchen and the ute chargerkicks in. Good ol' lectrickery for ya.”
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)