A recluse creature with the body of a squirrel, the beak of a duck, and the crest of a lion. Native to Jacksonville, NC. Has been known to travel in packs and forage in the dumpsters of local hotel chains. Valued for their rare pelts the mepper is on the verge of extinction and should be regarded as extremely dangerous.
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)