Wog vs Wos - What's the difference?
wog | wos |
(British, slang, pejorative, ethnic slur) Any dark-skinned person. Most commonly used to refer to people of Indian, North African, Mediterranean, or Middle Eastern ancestry.
(Australia, slang, pejorative, ethnic slur) A person of Southern European, Mediterranean (especially Italian, Croatian, Lebanese, Greek, Serbian, Macedonian and Bosnian people).
Abbreviation of polliwog
(nautical, slang) Short for pollywog, or a sailor who has never crossed the Equator. Often referred to as either filthy, slimy, or even dirty wogs
(Scientology) an acronym for "Without Goals", i.e. a person who is not a Scientologist.
WOG = water-oil-gas, typically marked on valves indicating acceptable for use with these fluids.
(slang) To steal.
* 1876, Edward Everett Hale, "Phillip Nolan's Friends; or, 'Show Your Passports!'", Scribner's Monthly , Vol. XII, No. 1, page 20[http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA20&id=KOgGAQAAIAAJ]:
As verbs the difference between wog and wos
is that wog is to steal while wos is eye dialect of lang=en.As a noun wog
is any dark-skinned person. Most commonly used to refer to people of Indian, North African, Mediterranean, or Middle Eastern ancestry.wog
English
(wikipedia wog)Etymology 1
Perhaps an abbreviation of golliwog . The claim that it is an acronym for Westernised Oriental gentleman is demonstrably false, as this etymology does not seem to occur before the 1960’s although the term had been in use for over a hundred years at that point.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (person of Italian descent) dago * (person of Italian descent) Eyetie * (person of Italian descent) goombah * (person of Italian descent) greaseball * (person of Italian descent) guido * (person of Italian descent) guinea * (person of Italian descent) wopEtymology 2
Abbreviation of polliwog .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
Unknown.Etymology 4
Initialism, coined by .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 5
Initialism.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 6
Unknown.Verb
Derived terms
* woggish English terms with unknown etymologies ----wos
English
Verb
(head)- She wos' real good to 'em all, she ' wos , ma'am.