wogn.¹

Brit.

/wɒɡ/, U.S.

/wɑɡ/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: golliwog n.

Etymology: Shortened < golliwog n.The word is sometimes erroneously explained as an acronym, from the initial letters of various combinations such as Wily (also Westernized) Oriental Gentleman, Worker on Government Service (in Egypt), and many others.

slang (derogatory and offensive).

a. British. A non-white person. Often with specific reference (varying according to context and period): a South Asian, an Arab, or a sub-Saharan African; a person of South Asian, Middle Eastern, or Afro-Caribbean origin or descent. Sometimes also more generally: a foreigner. Cf. golliwog n. 2.In quot. 1921 in plural with the, as a nickname of the Indian Cavalry during the First World War (1914–18).

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [noun]

person of colour1786

buck1800

coloured1832

Indiano1836

nigger1843

skepsel1844

native1846

non-white1864

fuzzy1890

fuzzy-wuzzy1892

monk1903

non-European1906

golliwog1916

wog1921

non-European1925

gook1935

boong1941

jungle bunny1966

Indio1969

1921 L. James Hist. King Edward's Horse xviii. 188 The King Edward's Horse called the Indian Cavalry ‘The Wogs’—which is the diminutive of ‘Golliwogs’,—a description that was very apt of these dark apparitions in khaki and tin-hats.

1925 R. Cardew Lett. Soldier to Son xii. 79 The Englishman is so apt to think at first glance that the Indian is stupid, dirty, mean, and many other things, and unless he probes a bit deeper he will continue to think him so, and he will class them all as ‘Wogs’.

1926 Depôt Mag. (Aboukir) Mar. 10/1 The Communists loitered in the vicinity disguised as Wogs.

1932 R. J. P. Hewison Ess. on Oxf. 5 And here the Ethiop ranks, the wogs, we spy.

1937 F. Stark Baghdad Sketches 90 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.’

1949 G. Wigg in Hansard Commons 29 July 2846 If one views people like the hon. Gentleman from the angle of a private soldier, one realises that to them there are black ‘wogs’ and white ‘wogs’.

1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate i. 13 After all, one might speak in that manner of the Wogs or the Commies.

1982 J. Savarin Water Hole i. iv. 42 He hated Arabs... They were all wogs to him.

2002 N. Goodrick-Clarke Black Sun (2003) x. 193 The lead singer, a skinhead called Jacko,..belts out hateful lyrics laced with threats to murder the ‘wogs’, ‘pakis’ and ‘Yids’.

b. Australian and New Zealand. A foreigner or immigrant, esp. one from southern Europe or the Middle East.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > migrant > [noun] > immigrant

comelinga1325

incomer1526

income1555

comer1581

adventivea1626

transplanteea1687

immigrantc1787

importation1787

migrant1795

immigrator1836

importee1858

metic1904

wog1966

1966 Canberra Times 20 Jan. 9/3 Fewer Australians now called new settlers ‘wogs’ and ‘reffos’.

1977 R. Beilby Gunner 302 That wog ya roughed up—well, he karked.

1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 187 We Skips and Joeys used to pay out on the Wogs for taking all the jobs, now the Wogs blame the Asian Invasion.

2013 C. Tsiolkas Barracuda (2014) 64 I beat the shit out of this arrogant wog today, this total Greek dickhead.

2. The Arabic language; (also more generally) any foreign language.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Semitic > Arabic

Araba1393

Arabicc1400

arabesquea1456

Arabian1570

Arabism1614

wog1947

1947 C. Keeling Pict. from Persia xii. 172 Unable to distinguish between Arab and Egyptian, Persian and Indian, he [sc. the average soldier] lumped them all together as ‘wogs’... The ‘wogs’ lived in ‘woggeries’, spoke ‘wog’ and wrote ‘wog’.

1954 W. Fain Lizard's Tail xiii. 144 He don't speak Wog or French.

1982 ‘W. Haggard’ Mischief-makers xiv. 157 ‘I've picked up a few words of wog, sir.’.. The driver spoke terrible barrack-room Arabic.

2012 J. Gregson Jasmine Nights 61 ‘Where did you learn to speak wog?’.. ‘There were two Arab families living in our street..and by the way, it's not wog, it's Arabic.’

Phrases

wogs begin (also start) at Calais: used to express an attitude of insularity and hostility to foreigners attributed to the British (esp. the English).

ΚΠ

1949 G. Wigg in Hansard Commons 29 July 2846 The right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) thinks that the ‘wogs’ start at Calais.

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Apr. p. vi/3 We have travelled some distance from the days when Wogs began at Calais.

1992 Times 8 Sept. (Life & Times section) 5/3 It is not only retired colonels and the Sun who believe wogs begin at Calais, after all.

2008 New Statesman 5 May 21/2 ‘Wogs begin at Calais’ has returned with a vengeance.

Compounds

C1. General attributive and appositive.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [adjective]

blackOE

coloured1758

native1827

non-white1867

non-European1870

Indo-African1896

woggy1941

wog1948

New Commonwealth1964

1948 W. H. Pearson in Canterbury Lambs 3 18 It was a distinction to be seen riding with an Egyptian policeman in white, and soldiers stared at me wondering if I'd been mug enough to let a wog policeman arrest me.

1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard viii. 234 We were hawking, and getting treated like bleeding wog brush salesmen.

1977 Drive Sept. 112/2 Any foreign car, even a Ferrari or a Mercedes, is a wog motor, unless it's a Yank.

1995 M. Livesey Criminals x. 124 While she and the waiter yakked in some wog language, he sank back into his own thoughts.

2004 J. R. Carroll Blindside 12 I fuckin' warned you, you stupid fuckin' wog cunt.

C2.

wogball n. Australian (a name for) Association Football. So called because of the sport's largely European immigrant following in Australia.

ΚΠ

1974 Austral. Q. Dec. 85 Australian children refer to soccer as ‘wog ball.’

1987 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 2 June It's time for women's soccer to shed the image of ‘wogball played by macho females.’

2014 Ballarat (Austral.) Courier (Nexis) 12 June 13 It has been a difficult road for association football in Australia... It was seen as an immigrants' sport and termed ‘wogball’—a racial slur.

wogland n. (also with capital initial) British a country characterized by dark-skinned inhabitants; spec. one in Asia or Africa; (also more generally) any foreign country.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun] > foreign land

unkithOE

eillandOE

outlandOE

wogland1953

1953 C. H. Sisson Asiatic Romance i. 11 ‘There isn't any ruddy civilisation,’ said Curly decisively. He waved a hand over vast distances. ‘All ruddy Wogland.’

1976 Guardian 21 Aug. 6/2 In Spain, in Italy, in Wogland where they've got weather like we've got now.

2005 H. Mantel Beyond Black vi. 205 I said to him, I don't want borning in bloody wogland, you hear what I'm saying, I don't want to come back as some nig.

Derivatives

ˈwoggy adj. of or characteristic of people designated as ‘wogs’ (see senses 1a, 1b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [adjective]

blackOE

coloured1758

native1827

non-white1867

non-European1870

Indo-African1896

woggy1941

wog1948

New Commonwealth1964

1941 Let. 9 Mar. in M. Johnston Anzacs in Middle East (2013) iv. 75 To see white girls in white summer dresses; and forget camels and smells and wogs. Trains smell woggy, streets smell woggy—everything has that awful stench.

1973 M. Catto Sam Casanova iv. 75 I met some kid in a night-club here, does some sort of Woggy belly-dance.

2012 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 15 Oct. 2 I can't be sure, but suspect Mr Henderson is confusing a couple of woggy Greek names—Koukoulas, Koutsoukis—what's a few letters here and there?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wogn.²

Brit.

/wɒɡ/, U.S.

/wɑɡ/, Australian English

/wɔɡ/

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: woggle v.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps shortened < woggle v.; compare the second element of pollywog n.

Australian slang.

1. An insect, a bug; esp. one regarded as a pest.Quot. 1909 for ‘woggies’ probably reflects earlier currency of ‘wog’ in this sense; cf. -y suffix⁶.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of

buddea1200

Bruchusa1398

cut-fowl1587

insect1601

intersect1655

beastie1820

scallop hook tip1829

hexapod1875

wog1922

1909 F. E. Birtles Lonely Lands 111 The little water that remained was filled with a kind of water beetle, locally known as ‘wee woggies’.]

1922 Land (Sydney) 15 Dec. 6/2 There are stories of snakes and birds and fish and ‘wogs’.

1956 D. Rowbotham Town & City 76 It's a menace, a breeding place for mosquitoes and God knows what variety of wogs.

1982 J. A. Sharwood Vocab. Austral. Dried Vine Fruits Industry 32 A grower..who is chasing the wogs is examining his vines closely for signs of insect damage.

2008 West Austral. (Perth) (Nexis) 29 Aug. 18 Point Peron has been fishing well for herring and gardies as the weather warms up, with the usual combination of berley and wogs working best.

2. A germ, a parasite; an illness, a disease. Cf. bug n.² 6.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun]

soreOE

cothec1000

sicknessc1000

evilc1275

maladyc1275

grievance1377

passiona1382

infirmityc1384

mischiefa1387

affectiona1398

grievinga1398

grief1398

sicka1400

case?a1425

plaguec1425

diseasea1475

alteration1533

craze1534

uncome1538

impediment1542

affliction?1555

ailment1606

disaster1614

garget1615

morbus1630

ail1648

disaffect1683

disorder1690

illness1692

trouble1726

complaint1727

skookum1838

claim1898

itis1909

bug1918

wog1925

crud1932

bot1937

lurgy1947

Korean haemorrhagic fever1951

nadger1956

the world > animals > by nature > [noun] > vermin > parasite

entozoon1831

epizoon1836

guest1864

wog1925

1925 Newcastle (New S. Wales) Sun 7 Mar. 4/4 Methuselah probably ran out of some essential ingredient of his Universal Microbe Mixture, with the result that he was overtaken by the wogs..and died.

1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 31 Oct. 20/4 Buckley's fluke..is a wog that enters the nostrils of these snakes during hibernation.

1976 D. Francis In Frame viii. 126 A beastly stomach wog, so he couldn't come.

1998 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 13 July 13 I was unwell. You see, I'd caught a wog the previous night but hadn't noticed until I was past the point of no return sailing up Great Sandy Strait.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wogv.

Brit.

/wɒɡ/, U.S.

/wɑɡ/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: wog n.¹

Etymology: < wog n.¹

British and Australian slang (depreciative or derogatory). Now rare.

1. transitive. Chiefly with reference to the Second World War (1939–45): to sell (goods) to local inhabitants; to trade (something) on the black market.

ΚΠ

1940 Action Front: Jrnl 2/2 Field Regiment Oct. 5 Whilst short of cash, he wogged his fountain pen.

1947 Advertiser (Adelaide) 8 Feb. 10/1 Selling cigarettes to Watanabe San [sc. a Japanese black marketeer] would have been known locally as ‘wogging’ them.

1951 A. S. Clifton Time of Fallen Blossom 175 They had their girl friends and ‘wogged’ their canteen goods.

1981 D. Stuart I think I'll Live 103 Some of my blokes have been seeing a few of the locals at night..an' wogging a bit of gear.

2. transitive. To steal, pinch.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [verb (transitive)] > to steal

robc1325

thief1836

wog1970

1970 ‘P. Pook’ Playboy Pook ix. 155 I worked hard enough getting this bloomin' sign off the rock face, believe me, so I classify it as modern archaeology—same as Lord Elgin wogged his marbles.

1971 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 5 Dec. 3/2 The flags were wogged from outside the Broadbeach hotel last Sunday week.

1985 P. 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.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

n.¹1921

n.²1922

v.1940

单词	wog
释义	wogn.¹ Brit. /wɒɡ/, U.S. /wɑɡ/ Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: golliwog n. Etymology: Shortened < golliwog n.The word is sometimes erroneously explained as an acronym, from the initial letters of various combinations such as Wily (also Westernized) Oriental Gentleman, Worker on Government Service (in Egypt), and many others. slang (derogatory and offensive). 1. a. British. A non-white person. Often with specific reference (varying according to context and period): a South Asian, an Arab, or a sub-Saharan African; a person of South Asian, Middle Eastern, or Afro-Caribbean origin or descent. Sometimes also more generally: a foreigner. Cf. golliwog n. 2.In quot. 1921 in plural with the, as a nickname of the Indian Cavalry during the First World War (1914–18). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [noun] person of colour1786 buck1800 coloured1832 Indiano1836 nigger1843 skepsel1844 native1846 non-white1864 fuzzy1890 fuzzy-wuzzy1892 monk1903 non-European1906 golliwog1916 wog1921 non-European1925 gook1935 boong1941 jungle bunny1966 Indio1969 1921 L. James Hist. King Edward's Horse xviii. 188 The King Edward's Horse called the Indian Cavalry ‘The Wogs’—which is the diminutive of ‘Golliwogs’,—a description that was very apt of these dark apparitions in khaki and tin-hats. 1925 R. Cardew Lett. Soldier to Son xii. 79 The Englishman is so apt to think at first glance that the Indian is stupid, dirty, mean, and many other things, and unless he probes a bit deeper he will continue to think him so, and he will class them all as ‘Wogs’. 1926 Depôt Mag. (Aboukir) Mar. 10/1 The Communists loitered in the vicinity disguised as Wogs. 1932 R. J. P. Hewison Ess. on Oxf. 5 And here the Ethiop ranks, the wogs, we spy. 1937 F. Stark Baghdad Sketches 90 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.’ 1949 G. Wigg in Hansard Commons 29 July 2846 If one views people like the hon. Gentleman from the angle of a private soldier, one realises that to them there are black ‘wogs’ and white ‘wogs’. 1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate i. 13 After all, one might speak in that manner of the Wogs or the Commies. 1982 J. Savarin Water Hole i. iv. 42 He hated Arabs... They were all wogs to him. 2002 N. Goodrick-Clarke Black Sun (2003) x. 193 The lead singer, a skinhead called Jacko,..belts out hateful lyrics laced with threats to murder the ‘wogs’, ‘pakis’ and ‘Yids’. b. Australian and New Zealand. A foreigner or immigrant, esp. one from southern Europe or the Middle East. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > migrant > [noun] > immigrant comelinga1325 incomer1526 income1555 comer1581 adventivea1626 transplanteea1687 immigrantc1787 importation1787 migrant1795 immigrator1836 importee1858 metic1904 wog1966 1966 Canberra Times 20 Jan. 9/3 Fewer Australians now called new settlers ‘wogs’ and ‘reffos’. 1977 R. Beilby Gunner 302 That wog ya roughed up—well, he karked. 1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 187 We Skips and Joeys used to pay out on the Wogs for taking all the jobs, now the Wogs blame the Asian Invasion. 2013 C. Tsiolkas Barracuda (2014) 64 I beat the shit out of this arrogant wog today, this total Greek dickhead. 2. The Arabic language; (also more generally) any foreign language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Semitic > Arabic Araba1393 Arabicc1400 arabesquea1456 Arabian1570 Arabism1614 wog1947 1947 C. Keeling Pict. from Persia xii. 172 Unable to distinguish between Arab and Egyptian, Persian and Indian, he [sc. the average soldier] lumped them all together as ‘wogs’... The ‘wogs’ lived in ‘woggeries’, spoke ‘wog’ and wrote ‘wog’. 1954 W. Fain Lizard's Tail xiii. 144 He don't speak Wog or French. 1982 ‘W. Haggard’ Mischief-makers xiv. 157 ‘I've picked up a few words of wog, sir.’.. The driver spoke terrible barrack-room Arabic. 2012 J. Gregson Jasmine Nights 61 ‘Where did you learn to speak wog?’.. ‘There were two Arab families living in our street..and by the way, it's not wog, it's Arabic.’ Phrases wogs begin (also start) at Calais: used to express an attitude of insularity and hostility to foreigners attributed to the British (esp. the English). ΚΠ 1949 G. Wigg in Hansard Commons 29 July 2846 The right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) thinks that the ‘wogs’ start at Calais. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Apr. p. vi/3 We have travelled some distance from the days when Wogs began at Calais. 1992 Times 8 Sept. (Life & Times section) 5/3 It is not only retired colonels and the Sun who believe wogs begin at Calais, after all. 2008 New Statesman 5 May 21/2 ‘Wogs begin at Calais’ has returned with a vengeance. Compounds C1. General attributive and appositive. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [adjective] blackOE coloured1758 native1827 non-white1867 non-European1870 Indo-African1896 woggy1941 wog1948 New Commonwealth1964 1948 W. H. Pearson in Canterbury Lambs 3 18 It was a distinction to be seen riding with an Egyptian policeman in white, and soldiers stared at me wondering if I'd been mug enough to let a wog policeman arrest me. 1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard viii. 234 We were hawking, and getting treated like bleeding wog brush salesmen. 1977 Drive Sept. 112/2 Any foreign car, even a Ferrari or a Mercedes, is a wog motor, unless it's a Yank. 1995 M. Livesey Criminals x. 124 While she and the waiter yakked in some wog language, he sank back into his own thoughts. 2004 J. R. Carroll Blindside 12 I fuckin' warned you, you stupid fuckin' wog cunt. C2. wogball n. Australian (a name for) Association Football. So called because of the sport's largely European immigrant following in Australia. ΚΠ 1974 Austral. Q. Dec. 85 Australian children refer to soccer as ‘wog ball.’ 1987 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 2 June It's time for women's soccer to shed the image of ‘wogball played by macho females.’ 2014 Ballarat (Austral.) Courier (Nexis) 12 June 13 It has been a difficult road for association football in Australia... It was seen as an immigrants' sport and termed ‘wogball’—a racial slur. wogland n. (also with capital initial) British a country characterized by dark-skinned inhabitants; spec. one in Asia or Africa; (also more generally) any foreign country. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun] > foreign land unkithOE eillandOE outlandOE wogland1953 1953 C. H. Sisson Asiatic Romance i. 11 ‘There isn't any ruddy civilisation,’ said Curly decisively. He waved a hand over vast distances. ‘All ruddy Wogland.’ 1976 Guardian 21 Aug. 6/2 In Spain, in Italy, in Wogland where they've got weather like we've got now. 2005 H. Mantel Beyond Black vi. 205 I said to him, I don't want borning in bloody wogland, you hear what I'm saying, I don't want to come back as some nig. Derivatives ˈwoggy adj. of or characteristic of people designated as ‘wogs’ (see senses 1a, 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [adjective] blackOE coloured1758 native1827 non-white1867 non-European1870 Indo-African1896 woggy1941 wog1948 New Commonwealth1964 1941 Let. 9 Mar. in M. Johnston Anzacs in Middle East (2013) iv. 75 To see white girls in white summer dresses; and forget camels and smells and wogs. Trains smell woggy, streets smell woggy—everything has that awful stench. 1973 M. Catto Sam Casanova iv. 75 I met some kid in a night-club here, does some sort of Woggy belly-dance. 2012 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 15 Oct. 2 I can't be sure, but suspect Mr Henderson is confusing a couple of woggy Greek names—Koukoulas, Koutsoukis—what's a few letters here and there? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wogn.² Brit. /wɒɡ/, U.S. /wɑɡ/, Australian English /wɔɡ/ Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: woggle v. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps shortened < woggle v.; compare the second element of pollywog n. Australian slang. 1. An insect, a bug; esp. one regarded as a pest.Quot. 1909 for ‘woggies’ probably reflects earlier currency of ‘wog’ in this sense; cf. -y suffix⁶. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of buddea1200 Bruchusa1398 cut-fowl1587 insect1601 intersect1655 beastie1820 scallop hook tip1829 hexapod1875 wog1922 1909 F. E. Birtles Lonely Lands 111 The little water that remained was filled with a kind of water beetle, locally known as ‘wee woggies’.] 1922 Land (Sydney) 15 Dec. 6/2 There are stories of snakes and birds and fish and ‘wogs’. 1956 D. Rowbotham Town & City 76 It's a menace, a breeding place for mosquitoes and God knows what variety of wogs. 1982 J. A. Sharwood Vocab. Austral. Dried Vine Fruits Industry 32 A grower..who is chasing the wogs is examining his vines closely for signs of insect damage. 2008 West Austral. (Perth) (Nexis) 29 Aug. 18 Point Peron has been fishing well for herring and gardies as the weather warms up, with the usual combination of berley and wogs working best. 2. A germ, a parasite; an illness, a disease. Cf. bug n.² 6. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] soreOE cothec1000 sicknessc1000 evilc1275 maladyc1275 grievance1377 passiona1382 infirmityc1384 mischiefa1387 affectiona1398 grievinga1398 grief1398 sicka1400 case?a1425 plaguec1425 diseasea1475 alteration1533 craze1534 uncome1538 impediment1542 affliction?1555 ailment1606 disaster1614 garget1615 morbus1630 ail1648 disaffect1683 disorder1690 illness1692 trouble1726 complaint1727 skookum1838 claim1898 itis1909 bug1918 wog1925 crud1932 bot1937 lurgy1947 Korean haemorrhagic fever1951 nadger1956 the world > animals > by nature > [noun] > vermin > parasite entozoon1831 epizoon1836 guest1864 wog1925 1925 Newcastle (New S. Wales) Sun 7 Mar. 4/4 Methuselah probably ran out of some essential ingredient of his Universal Microbe Mixture, with the result that he was overtaken by the wogs..and died. 1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 31 Oct. 20/4 Buckley's fluke..is a wog that enters the nostrils of these snakes during hibernation. 1976 D. Francis In Frame viii. 126 A beastly stomach wog, so he couldn't come. 1998 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 13 July 13 I was unwell. You see, I'd caught a wog the previous night but hadn't noticed until I was past the point of no return sailing up Great Sandy Strait. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wogv. Brit. /wɒɡ/, U.S. /wɑɡ/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: wog n.¹ Etymology: < wog n.¹ British and Australian slang (depreciative or derogatory). Now rare. 1. transitive. Chiefly with reference to the Second World War (1939–45): to sell (goods) to local inhabitants; to trade (something) on the black market. ΚΠ 1940 Action Front: Jrnl 2/2 Field Regiment Oct. 5 Whilst short of cash, he wogged his fountain pen. 1947 Advertiser (Adelaide) 8 Feb. 10/1 Selling cigarettes to Watanabe San [sc. a Japanese black marketeer] would have been known locally as ‘wogging’ them. 1951 A. S. Clifton Time of Fallen Blossom 175 They had their girl friends and ‘wogged’ their canteen goods. 1981 D. Stuart I think I'll Live 103 Some of my blokes have been seeing a few of the locals at night..an' wogging a bit of gear. 2. transitive. To steal, pinch. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [verb (transitive)] > to steal robc1325 thief1836 wog1970 1970 ‘P. Pook’ Playboy Pook ix. 155 I worked hard enough getting this bloomin' sign off the rock face, believe me, so I classify it as modern archaeology—same as Lord Elgin wogged his marbles. 1971 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 5 Dec. 3/2 The flags were wogged from outside the Broadbeach hotel last Sunday week. 1985 P. 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. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹1921n.²1922v.1940
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