Malapropism of "flabbergasted": dumbfounded, amazed, stunned with surprise.
SECONDARY DEFINITION: a lazy and ineffective flagman at a highway construction site.
ORIGIN (all true): Early 20th century, Marie Natale Martini of Queens NY, an Italian immigrant who exclaimed she was "flaggerbastard" upon seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time. For sixty years, no one corrected her; it was just too funny.
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)