Pooey vs Pogey - What's the difference?
pooey | pogey |
(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:
As an adjective pooey
is (slang) like poo; crappy, of low quality.As a noun pogey is
(chiefly|historical|countable) a poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc.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.