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Pogey - What does it mean?

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pogey

English

Alternative forms

* pogie * pogy

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (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:
    • 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.

    Phrases

    * on the pogey

    Synonyms

    * pogey house * dole * (Canada) employment insurance, EI * (qualifier) unemployment insurance, UI

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.