Simirun is a name that dates back to the early thirteenth century and comes from the Punjab. It was originally the name given to the purest gold that was found in the village of Pandori. The gold was deemed to have special magical powers which would bring good luck to anyone who touched it. As years passed, a Raja of India named his only daughter Simirun and it is said that whatever misfortune came her way it immediately turned into good.
Simirun touched a blind man and he at once regained his sight.
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)