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tog

[tog] / tɒg /


Frequently Asked Questions

What is another word for tog?
Tog is an informal word for a coat. The plural form togs is used to refer to clothes in general. Similarly informal words for clothing include threads and duds. Tog can also be used as a verb: tog up and tog out mean to dress (oneself), especially to dress up.
Where does tog come from?
Tog comes from a shortening of togeman(s), a slang word for “cloak” or “coat.” The first part of the word ultimately comes from the Latin word toga, but the origin of the ending is uncertain.
How do you use tog in a sentence?
Tog is informal. It’s most commonly used in the plural togs, an informal word for clothes. Here are some examples of tog in a sentence:
  • Grab your tog, we’re going out! 
  • Fancy togs! You must have somewhere to go.  
  • I got all togged up for the party.

Example Sentences

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There have also been questions about Amazon parcel logistics, requests to borrow cereal bowls and what tog duvet other people's children were given.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

If you need a new mattress, spend time choosing one that is appropriate, and make sure your duvet is the right tog for the season.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2018

During a visit to Iceland, she sees native sheep whose coats “grow two distinct kinds of fiber” called tog and thel.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2016

China can not continue tog row at 10 percent forever and we will need to make accommodations for that fact.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2016

We’ll tog you out in no time, and then we’ll all ride over together and have a jolly day of it,” said Armitage.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford

Vander Ark, wearing orange jail togs, declined to speak when given the chance and instead shook her head to indicate “no.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024

Dress in your best green togs and find inspiration in peas, avocados, spinach, and seaweed.

From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2022

When the 13-year-old mogul decides to help the junior-high nerds, the first thing she does is outfit them from her closets full of fancy togs.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2019

When she saw her parents, she ran back inside and changed back into her gray togs, but it was no good: She was sent to a convent school.

From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2018

It’s like a masquerade party; they are like oversize children, dressed up in togs they’ve rummaged from trunks.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Suitably togged up, he set off on a solo motoring holiday in France.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2020

It is as if my entire childhood was lived out in the cold months, a decade spent togged up in duffel coats and mittens, wellingtons and woolly hats.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2017

“We’ll have you togged out in no time.”

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2010

Your mother has asked us to leave you up at the weekend so she can get you togged out and all.”

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2010

Meanwhile Dad'd come round from the greenhouse all togged out in his gardening gear.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

In the home dressing room their most capped prop, Andrea Lo Cicero, recalled to the starting team, will be togging out for the last time.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2013

Francisco Franco lightened the gloom of a generally hostile world by togging himself in hunting clothes and giving a splendid imitation of an old-fashioned candidate for some office or other.

From Time Magazine Archive

And there’s unclouded glory in occasionally togging him out in spotless white, and beholding him as immaculate as a cherub, if only for one brief half-hour.

From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher

All the other Gridley youngsters stopped half way in their togging to listen for the reply.

From The High School Captain of the Team Dick & Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

This was what "the message of Emerson" meant to Westley, and the novelty of it had seemed to justify what he called "togging up," after a hard day's work at the slaughter-house.

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Harry Leon Wilson




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