wog
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wɒɡ/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒɡ
Etymology 1
- Perhaps an abbreviation of golliwog, which was first used the name of a black-faced doll in Bertha Upton’s 1895 book The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwog.
- A variety of folk etymologies exist, with the most common claiming that the word is an acronym for one of either westernized, worthy, wily, or wonderful preceding “Oriental gentlemen”.
- Another claim is that it was used in the mid 1800s, with WOGS (meaning Working On Government Service) stencilled on the shirts of Indian workers in Egypt.
Noun
wog (plural wogs)
- (Britain, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Any dark-skinned person. Most commonly used to refer to people of Indian, North African, Mediterranean, or Middle Eastern ancestry.
- (Australia, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Southern European, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, or Eastern European ancestry.
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of polliwog.
Noun
wog (plural wogs)
Etymology 3
Unknown
Noun
wog (plural wogs)
Etymology 4
Following the usage of L. Ron Hubbard, who held that wog was originally an acronym of Worthy Oriental Gentleman, but employed it in the specific sense of 'common ordinary run-of-the-mill garden-variety humanoid'.
Etymology 5
Initialism.
Noun
wog (plural wogs)
- (piping, valves) WOG = water-oil-gas, typically marked on valves indicating acceptable for use with these fluids.
Etymology 6
Unknown
Verb
wog (third-person singular simple present wogs, present participle wogging, simple past and past participle wogged)
- (slang) To steal.
Derived terms
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /voːk/
Audio (Austria) (file)
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