A “single-status-scoping” maneuver to see whether a hot chick whom you’re interested in is rocking anything besides “non-official” finger-jewelry.
Using da triple-s double-handshake clasp is merely one of several pleasant hands-accessing techniques to visually determine if a gal is wearing wedding and/or engagement rings --- doing finger-interlacings, playing fingertips or palm-juggle or wrist-clap, or performing other soh-shuh-buhl activities wif her pretty hands are all good ways of figuring out whether said attractive damsel might be someone whom you could either court yourself or at least consider asking for a “more than just a hands-and-feet relationship” status.
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)