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[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.

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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

Make dot figure two hundred and twenty-five, and it vos more as tog cheap at dot.”

From Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone by Edward Stratemeyer

Although the full health risks of wearing togs alleged to be toxic are still unknown, the potential implications are wide-reaching.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

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

A palpable tension filled the vast interior of the shell house as the oarsmen changed into their rowing togs.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

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

“I think it’s past time we got you togged out, girl.”

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

As they were to play subs. they did not need to be as early at togging as the members of the team.

From Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Probably a football player never had more assistance in togging up for a game.

From The High School Left End Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

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




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