a polite way to take the Lord's name in vein popular in rural Vermont.
An example of the use of Jeezum Crow can be seen in the nickname of Vermont's independent senator, James Jeffords. His nickname is "Jeezum Jim," which referenced his propensity to annoy Republicans, a party of which he was nominally a member.
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)