Tod vs Tog - What's the difference?
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A fox.
* Ben Jonson
* Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs
# A male fox; a dog; a reynard.
Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
A bush; used especially of ivy .
* '', Act 4, Scene 2, 1997 , Lois Potter (editor), ''The Two Noble Kinsmen ,
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).
* 1843 , The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , Volume 27,
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 209:
(obsolete) To weigh; to yield in tods.
A cloak.
Clothes.
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To dress.
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is death.As a verb tog is
lift, lift up, raise.tod
English
Etymology 1
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)- the wolf, the tod , the brock
- Who am Ah? Ah'm tod , whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!
Etymology 2
Apparently cognate with East Frisian .Noun
(en noun)page 277,
- His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods , / Not to undo with thunder.
- The ivy tod is heavy with snow.
p. 202:
- Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
- Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.
Verb
(todd)Anagrams
* English terms with unknown etymologies ----tog
English
(wikipedia tog)Etymology 1
From (etyl) togue, from (etyl) toga'', "cloak" or "mantle". It started being used by thieves and vagabonds with the noun ''togman , which was an old slang word for "cloak". By the 1700s the noun "tog" was used as a short form for "togman", and it was being used for "coat", and before 1800 the word started to mean "clothing". The verb "tog" came out after a short period of time and became a popular word which meant to dress up.Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=“[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”}}
Derived terms
* (l)Verb
(togg)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=“[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. […]”}}