Tog vs Togs - What's the difference?
tog | togs |
A cloak.
Clothes.
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To dress.
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(UK, plural only) Clothes.
:: 'Look at his togs', Fagin!' said Charley, putting the light so close to his new jacket as nearly to set him on fire. 'Look at his ' togs ! Superfine cloth, and the heavy swell cut! Oh, my eye, what a game! And his books, too! Nothing but a gentleman, Fagin!'
(with noun qualifier, plural only) Clothes for a specific occasion or use.
A swimsuit.
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As nouns the difference between tog and togs
is that tog is a cloak while togs is plural of lang=en.As verbs the difference between tog and togs
is that tog is to dress while togs is third-person singular of tog.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. […]”}}
Etymology 2
togs
English
Noun
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- gardening togs''', swimming '''togs
