A common rodent that has a furry tail and strong hind legs; a derogatory name for a squirrel; put down towards stupid people; they eat seeds, nuts, and small children; predators to the triangle, weasals, and the fox
Mark and John wanted to kill the evil skirails outside.
Why are you being such a skirail?
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)