One who is lanky and long armed enough that when walking, his knuckles drag on the ground behind him. The term is often used in referring to rednecks or big dummies.
I saw Clayton, that big ole' knucklescraper the other day. He was wearing his union suit and overalls, looked like he was slowly making his way towards town.
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)