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You can make 4 words from wog according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of wog

wog owg wgo gwo ogw gow

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Definitions and meaning of wog

wog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɒɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Etymology 1

The origins are not entirely clear. The term was first noted by the lexicographer F.C. Bowen in 1929, in his Sea Slang: a dictionary of the old-timers’ expressions and epithets, where he defines wogs as "lower class Babu shipping clerks on the Indian coast."

The most common theory is that it is a clipping of golliwog, which was first used as the name of a black-faced doll in Florence Upton’s 1895 book The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg. A variety of erroneous folk etymologies exist, with the most common claiming that the word is an acronym for one of either westernized, worthy, wily, or wonderful preceding “Oriental gentlemen”. Another erroneous claim is that it was used in the mid 1800s, with WOGS (meaning Working On Government Service) stencilled on the shirts of Indian workers in Egypt.

The Scientologist sense is from the usage of L. Ron Hubbard, who apparently accepted the folk etymology from “worthy Oriental gentleman” but employed the term to mean “common ordinary run-of-the-mill garden-variety humanoid”.

Noun

wog (plural wogs)

1. (British, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Any person who looks in-between "white" and "black": originally specifically an Indian, but later also broadened to anybody of Middle Eastern or Mediterranean descent.
2. (Australia, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Specifically someone of Mediterranean descent.
3. (Scientology, often attributive) A person who is not a Scientologist.

Usage notes

In Australia (and to a lesser extent New Zealand), many Southern Europeans, Arabs, and other Mediterranean groups have reclaimed the word, such as Australian YouTuber and comedian Superwog.

Synonyms

• (person of Italian descent): dago, Eyetie, goombah, greaseball, guido, guinea, wop

Derived terms

• clog wog
• wogball
• wog box
• woggish
• wogspeak
• woggy

Translations

Verb

wog (third-person singular simple present wogs, present participle wogging, simple past and past participle wogged)

1. (Australia, WWII slang, obsolete) (Of soldiers stationed abroad) to sell something, especially illicit or stolen goods, to the local inhabitants.
2. (Australia, UK, dated) To steal.

Etymology 2

Clipping of polliwog (“a tadpole”).

Noun

wog (plural wogs)

1. Clipping of polliwog.
2. (nautical, slang) A pollywog, or sailor who has never crossed the Equator.

Etymology 3

Unknown. Probably from Etymology 2, a clipping of polliwog (“a tadpole”).

Noun

wog (plural wogs)

1. (Australia slang) A bug, an insect.
2. (Australia slang) A minor illness caused by bacteria, virus, intestinal parasite, etc.
3. (Australia slang, obsolete) A toy insect in parts that can be assembled, used in fund-raising games.

References

Anagrams

• Gow, Gow., gow

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /voːk/

Verb

wog

1. first/third-person singular preterite of wiegen
2. first/third-person singular preterite of wägen