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pogey N. Amer. slang (now chiefly Hist.).|ˈpəʊgɪ|
Also pogie, pogy.
[Origin unknown.]
a. A hostel for the needy or disabled; a poorhouse; a local relief centre or welfare office.
1891Contemporary Rev. Aug. ii. 255 Begging is called ‘battering for chewing’; railway brakemen, ‘brakies’; poorhouses, ‘pogies’. 1927Amer. Speech June 387/2 A pogey is a poorhouse. Government homes for disabled veterans are also known as pogies. 1936K. Mackenzie Living Rough 269, I was in the Pogey a couple of nights. It stinks. 1953D. M. LeBourdais Nation of North 211 Thousands of self-respecting workmen..sat at home while their wives made the dreary pilgrimage to the ‘pogie’. 1959Maclean's Mag. (Toronto) 15 Aug. 21/1 Lean and hungry alley-cat men swung down from the freights and headed for a fifteen-cent mission meal or the innumerable pogies and scratch houses for a ten-cent cot. 1974P. Gzowski Bk. about This Country 18 We had lived in teacherages, pogies and scratch houses and boarding houses. 1976Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 9 Jan. 1/1 Unemployment insurance has indeed come a long way since the days of the pogey houses of turn-of-the-century England—dank, gloomy places where the indigent could do menial tasks in exchange for food and lodging.
b. Relief given to the needy from national or local funds; unemployment benefit.
1960Maclean's Mag. (Toronto) 2 Apr. 54/2 Today unemployment-insurance payments are often referred to as pogey. But pogey in the depths of the thirties meant something as different from present-day unemployment insurance as panhandling is from drawing money from your bank account. 1961Time 31 Mar. 9/2 Said a jobless Hamilton steelworker, father of six children: ‘Why should I sweat for $40 a week? I'm getting more than that from the pogey, the welfare and the baby bonus.’ 1964H. T. Barker Ice Road 49 During the winter we lived on turnips, potatoes, canned clams and the pogy, and Mother and I would hook rugs for the tourist trade. 1976Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 6 Jan. 1/6 The Kingston area's fourth largest and fastest growing industry is unemployment insurance—pogey or, if you wish, the dole. |