'og
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "og"
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]'og (plural 'ogs)
- (UK, slang or dialectal) Nonstandard spelling of hog, particularly in its slang sense of shilling.
- 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXIX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC, pages 214–215:
- “’Ere y'are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown][sic] for the coat, two ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That's seven bob.”