A high-speed, jet-powered contraption resembling a fighter plane, whimsically imagined as a "global engine" (a fantastical, all-encompassing power source) navigating a wind tunnel filled with gusts of flatulent air. This playful term evokes the image of a supercharged vehicle testing its aerodynamics in a comically challenging environment.
After a week of testing, the engineers finally released the global engine fighter in a tunnel full of windy farts, sending it zooming through the air with a trail of giggles behind it.
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)