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pogue slang.|pəʊg|
Also poge.
[Perh. related to pough n.]
A bag, purse, wallet or container. Also by metonymy, money, takings. Also attrib., as pogue-hunter, a thief who steals purses, a pickpocket.
1812J. H. Vaux Vocab. Flash Lang. in Mem. (1964) 259 Pogue, a bag, (probably a corruption of poke.) 1879J. W. Horsley in Macm. Mag. XL. 504/2, I went out the next day to Maidenhead, and touched for some wedge and a poge (purse), with over five quid in it. 1896A. Morrison Child of Jago xxiii. 229 The pogue-hunter, emptying the pogues in his pocket by sense of touch. 1906E. Pugh Spoilers vi. 66 When the tiggies made a raid for a 'ot poge⁓hunter or snidesman. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §88/15 Purse, dummy, hide,..poge, poke. 1975M. Crichton Great Train Robbery v. 29 What's your pogue up there, anyway? Ibid. vii. 39 It was the stickman's job to take the pogue once Teddy had snaffled it, thus leaving Teddy clean, should..a constable stop him. |