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▪ I. tog, n.1 slang or colloq.|tɒg|
Usually pl. togs.
[app. a shortening of togemans, togman, used in Vagabonds' Cant as early as the 16th c. Its currency in the 19th c. was no doubt aided by its obvious connexion with toga; cf. toge.]
1. Cant and slang. A coat; any outer garment; see also quot. 1809.
1708Memoirs Right Villanous John Hall (ed. 4) 10/2 Togge, a Coat. 1718C. Hitching Regulator 20 The names of the flash words now in vogue among thieves... Togge, alias Coat. 1755J. Potts Jrnl. in R. Price Howling Arctic (1970) i. 16 Having no beaver coats in the factory to make their togs, mittens nor caps. 1798Tuft Gloss. Thieves' Jargon (Cent. D.), Long tog, a coat. 1809G. Andrewes Dict. Slang & Cant, Tatty togg, a gaming cloth. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Tog, a coat. 1821Sporting Mag. IX. 27 Curtis, in a new white upper tog. 191119th Cent. Sept. 548 A tog and kicks is synonymous with a coat and breeches.
2. pl.
a. Clothes. slang and humorously colloq.
1779J. Wedgwood Let. 9 May (1965) 233 He determined to strip off his waistcoat, and put on the togs at once. a1790H. T. Potter New Dict. Cant & Flash (1795) 59 Toges or toggs, cloaths for both sexes. 1809G. Andrewes Dict. Slang & Cant, Toggs, clothes. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Togs or Toggery, wearing apparel in general. 1838Dickens O. Twist xvi, ‘Look at his togs, Fagin!’ said Charley... ‘Look at his togs!—Super⁓fine cloth, and the heavy swell cut!’
b. Variously qualified: often humorous or depreciative; long togs (Naut.), landsmen's clothes.
1830Marryat King's Own x, I retained a suit of ‘long togs’, as we call them. 1840[see long a.1 18]. 1850Smedley F. Fairlegh iv. 34, I should have thought he had seen the sporting togs. 1860All Year Round No. 66. 380 Three or four days..employed by us in providing sea-going togs, and other requirements. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. s.v., Sunday togs.
c. Austral. and N.Z. colloq. A swimming costume.
1930V. Palmer Passage i. x. 83 ‘You nip in and get my togs.’.. He was much more at ease in his bathing⁓trunks than in his..suit and slippery shoes. 1935J. Guthrie Little Country xiii. 216 We..tore down to a quiet beach, stripped off our clothes, and plunged in... We didn't bother about togs. 1944G. Texidor in D. M. Davin N.Z. Short Stories (1953) 313 Mum came over and said..they could put on their togs. But they mustn't stay in for long, it was getting chilly. 1959M. Shadbolt New Zealanders 96 ‘I forgot my togs. I left them at the other place.’ ‘Never mind, you can swim in your shorts, can't you?’ 1971N.Z. Listener 15 Feb. 14/5 ‘I haven't got a costume.’..‘Go back and get your togs.’
3. A unit of thermal resistance used to express the insulating properties of clothes and quilts (see quots. 1945, 1978); so tog rating, tog value. [Modelled on the earlier U.S. term clo.]
1945Peirce & Rees in Shirley Inst. Mem. XIX. 343 So that practical clothing may be described conveniently by a range of small integers, the unit of thermal resistance, to be called the ‘tog’, is the resistance that will maintain a temperature difference of 0·1°C. with a flux of 1 watt per square metre, or in more practical terms, 10°C. with a flux of 1 watt per square decimetre. This is the resistance of a light summer suit, and 10 togs represents about the thickest clothing..practicable to wear. 1975Daily Tel. 9 Dec. 13/4 White goose down: 10·5 togs (which means that it is extra-warm and light)... Terylene P.3: 8·5 to 9 togs (normal warmth). The heaviest quilt, I am told, gives the same tog warmth as five blankets at less than half the weight. 1977Observer (Colour Suppl.) 25 Sept. 60/1 (Advt.), Genuine continental quilt luxury at bargain prices: Tog rating (warmth factor) 9·5+. 1978Textiles VII. ii. 50/2 The tog value of a textile is equal to ten times the temperature difference between its two faces when the flow of heat is equal to one watt per square metre. One tog is the thermal resistance of a fabric for a conventional man's suiting or of a blanket of medium quality.
4. Comb., as tog-maker.
1901Daily Tel. 16 Apr. 5/2 Describing himself as a ‘tog-maker’, with no fixed abode.
▪ II. tog, n.2 dial.|tɒg|
Local variant of teg, perh. influenced by hog.
1851Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XII. ii. 333 A lamb eight or nine months old, and until his first shearing, is called a ‘heder’ or ‘sheder’, ‘hog’, ‘hogget’, or ‘lamb-hog’. In other counties a ‘teg’, ‘tog’, ‘gimmer’, and ‘dinmont’, &c.
▪ III. tog, v.|tɒg|
[Occurs first and chiefly as togged (tɒgd), prob. orig. from tog n.1: cf. booted, hatted, etc.]
a. trans. To clothe, to dress. Const. out, up.
1793European Mag. XXIII. 466 An old fine lady..Tog'd out in each extravagance of fashion. 1811Lex. Balatr. s.v. Togs, The swell is rum-togged, the gentleman is handsomely dressed. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict. s.v., To tog is to dress or put on clothes; to tog a person, is also to supply them with apparel. 1824Scott St. Ronan's iv, He was tog'd gnostically enough. 1862All Year Round 13 Sept. 12/1 He was togged out in first-rate style. 1894Henty Dorothy's Double I. 202 You had better tog yourself up a bit. 1904J. A. Riis Roosevelt xiv. 344 Mrs. Cleveland when he was Governor, togged out his staff in the most gorgeous clothes.
b. intr. for refl. Also to tog it.
1812[see above]. 1844Alb. Smith Adv. Mr. Ledbury xvi, My pardner's going to tog it. 1869J. Greenwood Curses London (Farmer), She's a dress-woman..they tog out that they may show off at their best, and make the most of their faces. 1903‘Marjoribanks’ Fluff-Hunters 132 It was a new experience—togging up to meet a prospective landlady! |