shizzles and fiddlesticks combined; a word that replaces an expletive like sh** or f*** that normally expresses anger, frustration, pain, etc.; meant to be used around small children so they won't pick up cussing from you
guy (drops can on foot): f****** christ!
child (laughing): f****** christ!
girl: look what you've done! you should have said shizzlesticks
guy (in pain): that takes too long to say!
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)