Togs vs Tongs - What's the difference?
togs | tongs |
(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.
(tog)
(English plurals) An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.
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*:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs ;.
(lb) (English plurals) A large scissors-like two-piece center-hinged forged-iron implement with oval-loop handles and with pointed tips turned inward (in the same plane as and perpendicular to the handles) to facilitate lifting and carrying a block of ice. Often called ice tongs.
(tong)
As nouns the difference between togs and tongs
is that togs is plural of lang=en while tongs is (plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals) An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.As verbs the difference between togs and tongs
is that togs is third-person singular of tog while tongs is third-person singular of tong.togs
English
Noun
(head)- 1837-39 , ,
- gardening togs''', swimming '''togs