Pogey vs Poley - What's the difference?
pogey | poley |
(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:
(UK, dialect) Without horns; polled.
* Henry Kingsley
As nouns the difference between pogey and poley
is that pogey is a poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc while poley is alternative form of lang=en.As an adjective poley is
without horns; polled.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.
Phrases
* on the pogeySynonyms
* pogey house * dole * (Canada) employment insurance, EI * (qualifier) unemployment insurance, UIpoley
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(-)- If it had been any other beast which knocked me down but that poley heifer, I should have been hurt.