one that can be called upon to arrive at potentially dull party events when numbers and moral are low, bringing large groups of partying types to liven up and save not only the party but the reputation of the host.
-hey gazza this party is sucking bro! anything we can do to liven up the night?
-yeah mate im all over it. il give my mate steve a call. that man's a portable party! he'l bring a truckload of people with him.
-right on!!
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)