woggish

English

Etymology

From wog +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

woggish (comparative more woggish, superlative most woggish)

1. (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Exhibiting qualities or behaviour considered characteristic of a foreigner

   Synonym: woggy

   • 1960, Manohar Malgonkar, Distant drum‎^[1], Asia Pub. House, page 60:

     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^[2], Spinifex Press, page 6:

     They were too unrestrainedly ethnic, too woggish (from another point of view), not middle-class enough for my father [...]

   • 2006, Irfan Agha, Uncle Cuckoo‎^[3], Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pub., page 104:

     Thank God at least you don't speak with a woggish accent.