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toggery slang or colloq.|ˈtɒgərɪ|
[f. tog n.1 + -ery: cf. drapery, foolery.]
1. Garments; clothes collectively.
1812P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 44 In spite of all coats, ‘toggerys and upper benjamins’. a1845Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. iii. Blasphemer's Warn., Had a gay cavalier Thought fit to appear In any such ‘toggery’. 1894Fenn Real Gold 47 That's as much toggery as I can get in the..portmanter.
b. esp. Professional or official dress.
long toggery = long togs: see tog n.1 2 b.
1826Sporting Mag. XVII. 378 These, with the squire's pad-groom (all in the same toggery). 1827Blackw. Mag. XXII. 603 [He] is seen hebdomadally in the pulpit, adorned in clerical toggery. 1837Marryat Perc. Keene xx, Cross had dressed himself in long toggery as a captain of a merchant vessel. 1861Court Life at Naples I. 224 Officers in full toggery with clanging swords.
2. The trappings of a horse; harness.
1877C. D. Warner Levant vi. 128 The horse I rode on was not an animal to take advantage of the weakness of his toggery. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 104, I never thought of wanting the regular colts' toggery. |