tog

[ tog ]
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noun
  1. a coat.

  2. Usually togs. clothes.

verb (used with object),togged, tog·ging.
  1. to dress (often followed by out or up).

Origin of tog

1
1775–85; apparently short for earlier cant togeman(s), togman cloak, coat, equivalent to toge (late Middle English <Latin togatoga) + -man(s) obsolete cant suffix < ?

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How to use tog in a sentence

  • First off, we togged ourselves out the way punchers allus look in magazines.

    Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher | Eleanor Gates
  • In a very little while I was again walking by the Bellman House, completely togged out in new apparel from head to heel.

    Tramping on Life | Harry Kemp
  • "Willie off the yacht" is there, togged in flannels and making a desperate struggle to roll in his gait.

    Frank Merriwell's Races | Burt L. Standish
  • The next day they came to a party at the Settlement House togged up in their plunder.

    The Precipice | Elia Wilkinson Peattie
  • She never appears to better advantage than when she is togged out in her Sunday-go-to-race-meeting-best.

British Dictionary definitions for tog (1 of 2)

tog1

/ (tɒɡ) informal /


verbtogs, togging or togged
  1. (often foll by up or out) to dress oneself, esp in smart clothes

noun
  1. See togs

Origin of tog

1
C18: probably short for obsolete cant togemans coat, from Latin toga toga + -mans, of uncertain origin

British Dictionary definitions for tog (2 of 2)

tog2

/ (tɒɡ) /


noun
    • a unit of thermal resistance used to measure the power of insulation of a fabric, garment, quilt, etc. The tog-value of an article is equal to ten times the temperature difference between its two faces, in degrees Celsius, when the flow of heat across it is equal to one watt per m²

    • (as modifier): tog-rating

Origin of tog

2
C20: arbitrary coinage from tog 1 (noun)

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