Talk:woggin
Latest comment: 4 years ago by -sche in topic Other dialectal meaning
Mentions (for establishing meaning)
[edit]- 1831, Naval Journal, page 27:
- A person looking overboard, saw a Penguin, (Genus aptenodytes,) commonly called by the sailors a “woggin,” between the body of the whale and the ship.
- 1885, Olive Thorne Miller, Queer pets and their doings, page 176:
- Sailors call a Penguin a Woggin, and the story that Uncle Karl told the children, was of one which took a fancy to be a sailor. It was on an American whaleship, cruising about the coast of Brazil some years ago.
- -sche (discuss) 20:31, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
Other dialectal meaning
[edit]- 1829, Joseph Hunter, The Hallamshire glossary, page 129:
- A 'Woggin, a narrow passage between two houses.
- To Wolter, as welter.
- Woumstall, shelter for cattle in hot weather.
- Wote, know.
Maybe or may not be attestable. - -sche (discuss) 20:31, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
- 1869, Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, provides etymological information and a related word:
- Woggin, s. A narrow passage between two houses. Yorksh. Probably from woghe, a wall.
- Woghe, (1) s. (A.-S.) A wall. (2) s. (A.-S.) Wrong; harm. (3) adj. Bent.
- Woke, v. To throb with pain.
- 1874, English Dialect Society, Publications, volume 3, page 109:
- Woggin, sb, a narrow passage between two houses,
- Wogh, sb, any partition, whether of boards or mud-walls, or laths and lime; as, a boardshed-wogh, studded wogh.
- -sche (discuss) 23:52, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
- The latter word is from Middle English wough, wogh(e) and may be attestable in dialect as Citations:wo. - -sche (discuss) 00:20, 26 January 2020 (UTC)