Exclamation commonly used on hungover weekday mornings or when finishing a large meal. Typically expressed with a handpressed to the appropriate region of pain.
The king pushed back from the table, a strand of lamb dangling from his frothy beard, and uttered, "Oofdah! That was the most food I have ever consumed. Woe is my poor tummy!"
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)