27th December: the day that marks the end of the core Christmas season. Marked by an escalation into violence of squabbles between siblings over shared presents.
The day when you wrestle the last scraps of meat from the Christmas-dinner carcass
The real Christmas season runs from Christmas Eve Eve to Wrestling Day.
It's only Wrestling Day and Wayne has already broken the Xbox!
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)