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Definition: TOGGERY |
TOGGERYNoun1. Clothes; garments; dress; as, fishing toggery. |
Date "TOGGERY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
Note: Toggery \Tog"ger*y\, noun. [Compare to Togated.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Outfit, equipment, trousseau; uniform, regimentals; continentals; canonicals; livery, gear, harness, turn-out, accouterment, caparison, suit, rigging, trappings, traps, slops, togs, toggery; day wear, night wear, zoot suit; designer clothes; masquerade. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TOGGERY |
| Etymologies containing "TOGGERY": togs. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The new and the old in football toggery / p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Underwood and Underwood.. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
murrays toggery | 7 |
ex toggery | 7 |
murrays shop toggery | 5 |
toggery | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TOGGERY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | veshje (apparel, array, article of clothing, ascription, attire, attribution, clothes, clothing, cloudiness, dress, dressing, fig, furnishings, garb, garment, garments, gear, guise, habiliments, habit, incrustation, outfit, overlay, papering, raggery, raiment, sheath, strip, suit, tog, togs, vesture, wear), rroba (clothes, dress, duds, laundry, raiment, things, tog, togs, vesture, wardrobe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ملابس (apparel, attire, clothes, clothing, costume, dress, garb, garment, gear, gown, outfit, raiment, rig, rigging, robe, suit, togs, wear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | дрехи (clothes, clothing, dress, duds, gear, get up, things, togs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fringues (togs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρούχα (clothes, duds, garments, habiliments, wearering apparel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ruhák (clothing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oggerytay vestuário (apparel, attire, attirement, clothes, clothing, come off, costume, enshrine, fig, garner, gewgaw, guise, habiliment, investment, put off, raiment, stalking horse, tog, vestment, vesture), roupas (clothes, clothing, garment, get up, outfit, tog, wardrobe). (various references) hainã (coat, cope, costume, garment, pea jacket, thing, togs, toilet), boarfe (rummage, togs), îmbrãcãminte (accoutrement, attire, carpet, clothes, clothing, dress, fig, garb, garment, gear, plank, rig, toilet, wear). (various references) одежда (aparel, apparel, clobber, clothes, clothing, costume, dress, garment, garments, get up, maternity clothes, raggery, raiment, rig, rigging, the outward man, tog, togs, turn out, undercoat, vestment, wear). (various references) uniforma (uniform), odelo (dress, guise, habiliment, outfit, suit, vestment, vesture). (various references) giysi (apparel, attire, caparison, clothes, clothing, costume, dress, garment, guise, raiment, robe, tire, tog, vesture, wear), elbise (apparel, attire, clothes, clothing, costume, dress, garment, gown, habit, raiment, robe, tire, tog, wear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-g-o-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: gorget. | |
-2 letters: ergot, gorge, grego, toyer. | |
-3 letters: eggy, ergo, goer, gore, gory, grey, grog, grot, gyre, gyro, ogre, orgy, oyer, rote, ryot, tore, tory, trey, troy, tyer, tyre, tyro, yegg, yore. | |
-4 letters: egg, ego, erg, get, gey, gor, got, goy, ore, ort, reg, ret, roe, rot, rye, teg, toe, tog, tor, toy, try, tye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-g-o-r-t-y" | |
+4 letters: geostrategy, gerontology. | |
+5 letters: exaggeratory, gyromagnetic, pettifoggery. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 47 47 45 52 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- --. --. . .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 01000111 01000111 01000101 01010010 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O G G E R Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0047 0047 0045 0052 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54494141395259 |
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