Tog

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É’É¡

From Latin toga, "cloak" or "mantle". It started being used by thieves and vagabonds with the noun togman, which was an old slang word for "cloak". By the 1700s the noun "tog" was used as a short form for "togman", and it was being used for "coat", and before 1800 the word started to mean "clothing". The verb "tog" came out after a short period of time and became a popular word which meant to dress up.

Full definition of tog

Noun

1. A cloak.
2. Clothes.
• 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 7, “… if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. …”
3. A unit of thermal resistance, being ten times the temperature difference (in °C) between the two surfaces of a material when the flow of heat is equal to one watt per square metre

Derived terms

• megatog rare, humorously hyperbolic

Verb

1. (transitive) To dress.
• 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 7, “… if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. …”

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1. (knitting) together
• 2012, Kay Meadors, Knitting for a Cure (page 34)Row 1 (Right side): Slip 1, K1, K2 tog, YO, K 10, (K2 tog, YO) twice, K3.

Anagrams

• got