A softly padded helmet meant to keep those of less mental capacity free from self inflicted harm such as falling off ones high horse...Originally spelled 'wiffle-hat' in honor of the 'wiffle-ball-bat' it was later re-spelled to accommodate the constant mispronunciation by those adorned by said wifylhat.
Pronounced 'Wih-file-hat'.
Damn it's sure good little Zachary was wearing his wifylhat or that ping-pongball may have hit the soft spot on his forehead!
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)