adj. Aussie expression for a Veterinarian, or any other semi-professional bloke, who has passed all his exams and is able to leave University, or the Perth College of Sheep-dipping as the casemay be, and inflict himself, or herdself, upon the world.
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G’day Bruce! Heard, or should I say ‘Herd’ , you have koalified at last! How soon ‘til the local jumpbucks face yer clobber and start feeling the gentle touch of your tar brush on their tender spots?
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)