Clothes vs Togs - What's the difference?
clothes | togs | Related terms |
(plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 (obsolete) .
The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
* Prior
(UK, plural only) Clothes.
:: '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.
A swimsuit.
(tog)
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)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.}}
- 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 clothesSee also
* clothing * gear * threadsEtymology 2
togs
English
Noun
(head)- 1837-39 , ,
- gardening togs''', swimming '''togs
