Informal cricketing term used when a batsman takes a giant slog at a ball but completely misses. Equivalent to "swing and a miss" in baseball. Usually used as a sledge at under-12s cricket matches.
"Is he gonna whack this one for six? No, he's been bowled! Big swing, no ding!"
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)