The implication that someone is gagged, that being they have a piece of cloth, towel, or bandanna tied in their mouth preventing them from talking; usually the person is also tied up.
To have one's body all tied up with rope or cord to prevent one from being able to escape, and to have a gag tied around their mouth to prevent them from yelling out to for someone to rescue them.
Mrs. Wu came to his rescue and freed him, as he had been left tied up and gagged by the jewel thieves.
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)