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▪ I. wog1 slang.|wɒg|
[Origin uncertain: often said to be an acronym, but none of the many suggested etymologies is satisfactorily supported by the evidence.]
1. A vulgarly offensive name for a foreigner, esp. one of Arab extraction.
1929F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 153 Wogs, lower class Babu shipping clerks on the Indian coast. 1932R. J. P. Hewison Essay on Oxford 5 And here the Ethiop ranks, the wogs, we spy. 1937F. Stark Baghdad Sketches 90 When I return, Nasir fixed me with real malignity in his little placid eyes. ‘I knew she wanted me to go,’ he said. ‘I could see what she was thinking. They call us wogs.’ 1942C. Hollingworth German Just behind Me xiii. 258 King Zog Was always considered a bit of a Wog, Until Mussolini quite recently Behaved so indecently. 1944[see come v. 39 e]. 1955E. Waugh Officers & Gentlemen ii. 323 He turned up in western Abyssinia leading a group of wogs. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Apr. p. vi/3 We have travelled some distance from the days when Wogs began at Calais. 1965[see Commie]. 1982J. Savarin Water Hole i. iv. 42 He hated Arabs... They were all wogs to him.
2. The Arabic language.
1977P. Raymond Matter of Assassination vi. 63, I can't speak Wog and don't seems to be getting anywhere. 1982‘W. Haggard’ Mischief-Makers xiv. 157 ‘I've picked up a few words of wog, sir.’.. The driver spoke terrible barrack-room Arabic.
3. a. attrib. passing into adj.
a1963J. Lusby in B. James Austral. Short Stories (1963) 236 Wog chappie scuttling around seeking safe side of the beast. 1970G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard viii. 234 We were hawking, and getting treated like bleeding wog brush salesmen. 1973Daily Tel. 31 May 3/2 Judge Sheldon heard that trouble started..when white girlfriends of coloured soldiers..were taunted by members of the Royal Scots as ‘wog lovers’. 1977Drive Sept.–Oct. 112/2 Any foreign car, even a Ferrari or a Mercedes, is a wog motor, unless it's a Yank.
b. Comb. wogland derog., a foreign country.
1961[see nig n.3]. 1967‘J. Munro’ Money that Money can't Buy ii. 24, I don't live in Wogland [sc. Spain] because I like it.
Hence also ˈwogger; ˈwoggy a.
1922Joyce Ulysses 740 She called him wogger. Ibid. 741 She may have noticed her wogger people were always going away. 1973M. Catto Sam Casanova iv. 75, I met some kid in a night-club here, does some sort of Woggy belly-dance. 1979Reese & Flint Trick 13 100 That woggy fellow..was cleaning up.
▪ II. wog2 Austral. slang.|wɒg|
[Origin uncertain.]
A germ or parasite; an insect; an illness or disease. Cf. bug n.2 3 d.
1934Bulletin (Sydney) 31 Oct. 20/4 Buckley's fluke..is a wog that enters the nostrils of these snakes during hibernation. 1941C. Barrett Coast of Adventure iii. 51 Jolly little people..popping into old jam tins a miscellany of wogs—from bull-ants to scorpions and centipedes. 1953A. Upfield Murder must Wait xxi. 191 The wogs flying about the light. 1964R. Braddon Year Angry Rabbit i. 9 But find the wog, find the super-myxomatosis, the whatever-it-may-be that kills today's rabbits. 1976D. Francis In Frame viii. 126 A beastly stomach wog, so he couldn't come.
▪ III. wog
obs. Sc. f. vogue n.
c1700M'Alpie Cert. Cur. Poems (1828) 6 For we declair it wnto yow, The man hes gott the wog.
▪ IV. wog, v. slang.|wɒg|
[Origin uncertain.]
trans. To steal, pinch.
1971Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 5 Dec. 3/2 The flags were wogged from outside the Broadbeach hotel last Sunday week. 1977Scollins & Titford Ey up, mi Duck! II. 52 Wog, to take or steal. 1985P. Ferguson Family Myths i. 9 A new acquisition, no less, and one smuggled out of the shop under the assistant's very nose; one snaffled, pocketed, pinched, wogged, nicked. |