An exclamation, typically of surprise, accompanied by a look you would expect when taking a fit bird home, only to discover she has a pair of hairy holes.
In politer terms may be stated as 'You're joking!'
Jimmy - "Awright Boaby, saw yer Maw up the toon the day"
Boaby - "Fair play to you - whit wis she doin?"
Jimmy - "Having her flange waxed"
Boaby - "Hairyholes!"
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)