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单词 togger
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Toggern.

Etymology: Oxford undergraduates' perversion of torpid n.: see -er suffix6.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈTogger.
slang.
A boat rowing in the Oxford college races called ‘Torpids’; in plural the Torpids.
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1891 P. S. Allen Let. Oct. (1939) 10 I hope to combine reading and rowing, for both I hugely desire to get into the Eight next summer and also they are rather hard up for men for the Togger.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 18 Aug. 2/1 He once rowed in his second Togger.
1903 Oxf. Mag. 11 Feb. 213/1 Brasenose. The River.—Good luck to both Toggers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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