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taxonomy | woggish |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As an adjective woggish is

(slang|pejorative|ethnic slur) exhibiting qualities or behaviour considered characteristic of a wog.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    woggish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang, pejorative, ethnic slur) Exhibiting qualities or behaviour considered characteristic of a wog
  • * 1960 Manohar Malgonkar, Distant drum, Asia Pub. House, p60
    • I should have thought that we would have stopped all such woggish activities by now. I mean dancing and things.
  • * 1987 Anna Gibbs & Alison Tilson, Frictions, an anthology of fiction by women, Spinifex Press, p6
    • They were too unrestrainedly ethnic, too woggish (from another point of view), not middle-class enough for my father [...]
  • * 2006 Irfan Agha, Uncle Cuckoo, Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu, p104
    • Thank God at least you don't speak with a woggish accent.