A greeting or farewell said in the period between 12:00 AM (midnight) until 5:59 AM, known as postmidnight, wee hours, small hours, wee small hours, early hours, overnight, zero-dark-hundred, oh-dark-hundred, zero-dark-thirty or oh-dark-thirty.
A greeting or farewell said in the period between 12:00 AM (midnight) until 5:59 AM, known as postmidnight, wee hours, small hours, wee small hours, early hours, overnight, zero-dark-hundred, oh-dark-hundred, zero-dark-thirty or oh-dark-thirty.
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)