-The plural form of oaf.
-On the occurrence of oaves being present a subsequent increase in stupidity, lack of hygiene, and obscene behavior becomes exponential.
-New York state law prohibits the occupation of a room by more than two oaves
Ever since Tom and Dennisgot here this place smells like shit, i can't take all of these oaves!
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)