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togs

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tog

[tog] ,noun, verb, togged, tog·ging.
noun
1.
a coat.
2.
Usually, togs. clothes.
verb (used with object)
3.
to dress (often followed by out or up).

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Togs is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

Origin:
1775–85; apparently short for earlier cant togeman(s), togman cloak, coat, equivalent to toge (late Middle English < Latin toga toga) + -man(s) obsolete cant suffix < ?
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togs (tɒɡz)
 
pl n
1.  clothes
2.  (Austral), (NZ), (Irish) a swimming costume
 
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Word Origin & History

tog
1708, "any outer garment," shortened from togman "cloak, loose coat" (1567), thieves' cant word, formed from Fr. togue "cloak," from L. toga (see toga). M.E. toge "toga" (14c.) was also a cant word for "coat." Plural form togs is first recorded 1779. Toggery "clothes collectively"
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is recorded from 1812.
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