a name or phrase that sounds attractive to the ear of the listener, either because it rhymes or the first letters are the same, or it makes the subject of it feel better.
He had a record for robbery, so we named him Ronnie Ram Raider. It definitely (have) a ring to it.
'Our new doorbell will either be called an 'RDF1' or a 'Ring Ding Thing 1'.' 'Cool. Those names (have) a ring to them.'
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)