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Clothes vs Togs - What's the difference?

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Clothes is a related term of togs.


As nouns the difference between clothes and togs

is that clothes is (plural only) items of clothing; apparel while togs is .

As verbs the difference between clothes and togs

is that clothes is (clothe) while togs is (tog).

clothes

English

Etymology 1

(etyl)

Noun

(head)
  • (plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=6 citation , passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
  • (obsolete) .
  • The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
  • * Prior
  • She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes .
    Derived terms
    (terms derived from "clothes") * bedclothes * clotheshorse * clothesline * clothes moth * clothes-peg * clothes peg * clothespin * clotehspress * swaddling clothes * swathing clothes

    See also

    * clothing * gear * threads

    Etymology 2

    togs

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (UK, plural only) Clothes.
  • 1837-39 , ,
  • :: 'Look at his togs', Fagin!' said Charley, putting the light so close to his new jacket as nearly to set him on fire. 'Look at his ' togs ! Superfine cloth, and the heavy swell cut! Oh, my eye, what a game! And his books, too! Nothing but a gentleman, Fagin!'
  • (with noun qualifier, plural only) Clothes for a specific occasion or use.
  • gardening togs''', swimming '''togs
  • A swimsuit.
  • Synonyms

    * (clothes for specific occasion or use) bathers, cossie, swimmers

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tog)
  • Anagrams

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