1 When a tropical fruit (a man who turns gay when outside America ) sees someone they know while engaging in fruit like behaviour and tries to hide or ducks under a table to avoid
being seen
2 a species of duck , which tastes like bananas when cooked . Hunted to near extinction in the late 19th century for that reason . A new colony has just been found on north bull island in Dublin
Maurice did a tropical fruit duck when he spotted his cousin in the distance while engaging in fruity behaviour with a very attractive Jamaican man .
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)