A bird found in the Amazon and the Tibetan Region of India that has fur instead of feathers and a beak full of molar teeth. A furbird can be recognized by its high pitched shriek. They have survived from prehistoric times and still thrive today. Furbirds are considered to be the only creatures ever to walk the earth that are worse than ratfinks.
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)