Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Used as a disparaging term for a person of color, especially a person from northern Africa or western or southern Asia.
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- noun Abbreviation of
polliwog - noun Short for
pollywog , or a sailor who has never crossed the Equator. Often referred to as either filthy, slimy, or even dirty wogs - noun A minor illness, a
bug , aninsect orparasite . - noun UK, slang, pejorative, ethnic slur Any dark-skinned person. Most commonly used to refer to people of Indian, North African, Mediterranean, or Middle Eastern ancestry.
- noun Australia, slang, pejorative, ethnic slur A person of Southern European, Mediterranean (especially
Italian ,Lebanese , andGreek people), or Middle Eastern ancestry or in some cases, Eastern European ancestry (comparewop ). - noun Scientology an acronym for "Without Goals", i.e. a person who is not a Scientologist.
- noun piping/valves WOG = water-oil-gas, typically marked on valves indicating acceptable for use with these fluids.
- verb slang To
steal .
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- noun (offensive British slang) term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For the term wog, I recommend John Masters 'Bhowani Junction (see below).
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And I stick by the term wog from the bog - I had no intention of offending anybody, I just think its funny.
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In any case, the origin of the word wog is unknown.
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My dad's an unbelievably positive person, but I do know that he was called a wog, and probably had a hard time at work, and could speak very little "Inguish".
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The word 'wog' is a uniquely English one, although today it is an apt description of my status as an American if not a good description of how I feel.
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He -- actually I think humorously-- treated the great Indian ornithologist Salim Ali like a "wog" Ali, a sane man who considered M. a friend, found it funnier than not in his autobiography.
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He -- actually I think humorously-- treated the great Indian ornithologist Salim Ali like a "wog" Ali, a sane man who considered M. a friend, found it funnier than not in his autobiography.
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It was an article that basically maintained that my dear friend Joseph Massad is a "wog" who has gone too far, and that he has to behave himself, and act like a submissive Arab living in the West.
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When my grandfather got called a wog it wasn’t meant as a joke.
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I didn't know what 'wog' meant, I just knew that it would upset him and so I said it.
bilby commented on the word wog
"The word is often mistakenly thought to be an acronym. What the acronym supposedly stands for, however, varies in the telling:
* Westernized Oriental Gentleman
* Worthy Oriental Gentleman
* Wily Oriental Gentleman
* Wonderful Oriental Gentleman
* Working On Government Service
This last comes with a legend that wogs was stenciled on the shirts of workmen along the Suez Canal. The story and the acronymic origin, however, are false."
- wordorigins.org
August 4, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word wog
(see also conversation on wogball)
August 4, 2009