Pogey vs Fogey - What's the difference?
pogey | fogey |
(chiefly, historical, countable) A poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc.
Government financial assistance, particularly employment insurance.
* 1984 , Michiel Horn, The Great Depression of the 1930s in Canada (Canadian Historical Booklet no. 39), Canadian Historical Association, p 10:
A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow – usually preceded by old.
As nouns the difference between pogey and fogey
is that pogey is a poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc while fogey is a dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow – usually preceded by old.pogey
English
Alternative forms
* pogie * pogyNoun
(en-noun)- There were no jobs for the unemployed, however. And thus many hundreds of thousands went “on the pogey ,” although all available evidence indicates that they loathed doing so. To accept relief was an admission of defeat and failure, a humiliating stigma, whether the relief was indirect or direct.