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Ui vs Pogey - What's the difference?

ui | pogey | Synonyms |

Ui is a synonym of pogey.


As nouns the difference between ui and pogey

is that ui is onion while pogey is (chiefly|historical|countable) a poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc.

ui

English

(wikipedia UI)

Initialism

(Initialism) (en-initialism)
  • User interface.
  • (Canada) Unemployment insurance.
  • Urinary incontinence.

    • Hypernyms

    * MUI

    Derived terms

    * CHUI * GUI

    Anagrams

    * (l)

    pogey

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pogie * pogy

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (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:
    • 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 pogey

    Synonyms

    * pogey house * dole * (Canada) employment insurance, EI * (qualifier) unemployment insurance, UI