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 1864. The Tramp Exposed, p. 7. A miserable, a job lot of humanity as had ever been FOBBED OFF on a defrauded universe.

To gut a fob, verb. phr. (old).—To pick pockets. Cf., Fob, verbal sense 1. For synonyms, see Prig.

1819. Moore, Tom Crib's Memorial, 1. Diddling your subjects, and GUTTING their FOBS.

Fobus, subs. (old).—An opprobrious epithet.

1677. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, II., 1. Ay, you old FOBUS.

2. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see Monosyllable.

Fodder, subs. (common).—Paper for the closet, BUM-FODDER (q.v.).

Fœtus. To tap the fœtus, verb. phr (medical).—To procure abortion.

Fog, subs. (old)—Smoke.—Grose [1785]; Modern Flash Dict. [1823]; Matsell [1859]. [Cf., Fogus.]

In a Fog, subs. phr. (colloquial).—In a condition of perplexity, doubt, difficulty, or mystification: as, 'I'm quite in a fog as to wha you mean.'

Verb (old).—1. To smoke.

2. (colloquial).—To mystify; to perplex; to obscure.

1836. W. H. Smith, 'The Thieves' Chaunt.' There's a nook in the boozing-ken, Where many a mug I FOG.

1883. Punch, May, p. 210, col. 1. So large a picture, treated so ideally—Not that that means stricture—Fogs us to find room for it.

1883. Daily Telegraph, 29 Sept. We turns what we say into tangle talk so as to FOG them.

Fogey, or Fogy, Fogay, or Foggi, subs. (old).—An invalid or garrison soldier or sailor. Whence the present colloquial usages: (1) a person advanced in life, and (2) an old-fashioned or eccentric person; generally OLD FOGEY. [Derivation doubtful; suggestions are (1) from Su. G. fogde and (2) from Eng. folk. See Notes and Queries, 1 S. vii., 354, 559, 632; viii., 64, 154, 256, 455, 652; 6 S. ix., 10, 195.]

1785. Grose, Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.

1812. Letter quoted in Notes and Queries, 6 S., ix., 10. My company is now forming into an invalid company. Tell your grandmother we will be like the Castle FOGGIES.

1855. Thackeray, The Ballad of Bouillabaisse. When first I saw ye, cari luoghi, I'd scarce a beard upon my face, And now, a grizzled, grim OLD FOGY, I sit and wait for Bouillabaisse.

1864. Tangled Talk, p. 104. An OLD FOGEY, who particularly hated being 'done.'

1867. Nesmith, 'Reminiscences of Dr. Anthon,' in The Galaxy, Sept., p. 611. The adherents of 'progress' mostly regard classics as OLD FOGEY, and 'see no use' in the laborious years which youth spend upon them.

1883. James Payn, The Canon's Ward, ch. xv. 'He would have preferred some bookish sneak like Adair, or some OLD FOGEY like Mavors.'

1888. Sporting Life, 10 Dec. So it is with the sister art of music, for I (myself something of an OLD FOGEY in such matters).

So also FOGEYISH = old-fashioned; eccentric. Fogeydom = the state of FOGEYISHNESS; and FOGEYISM = a characteristic of Fogeydom.