A put-down for a boy who is less "boyish" than his companions would like. A boy who does not do "boyish" things like play sports, play with bugs or the like. Has nothing to do with gay or homosexual. 1950's slang; ages 8 to 15 and adults from that timeframe. "little fairyhopper" and "great big fairyhopper" both mean the same. Fairy + grasshopper.
"Oh look at Jimmy. He doesn't wanna go play by the tracks: Wassametter; Mommy won't let you go? Wotta little fairyhopper!" "C'mon Bobby, don't be a great big fairyhopper!"
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)