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wog
noun- any person of non-white ethnicity; a native of the Indian subcontinent; an Arab; any (non-British) foreigner, as in “the wogs begin at Calais” UK, 1929
Derogatory, patronising. Derives possibly from an abbreviation of “golliwog” (a caricature, black-faced, curly-haired doll) but the widest usage is in reference to Asians and not black people. Popular, unproven etymology has “wog” as an acronym of “Western(ised) [or] Wily Oriental Gentleman”. - Do you know what I’m going to do to those wogs? — Richard Farina, Been Down So Long, p. 164, 1966
- [H]e frequently and unashamedly aired his prejudices on such subjects as wogs and Roman Catholics. — Robin Page, Down Among the Dossers, p. 50, 1973
- Show us your ticket, you old desert wog! — Lance Peters, The Dirty Half-Mile, p. 317, 1979
- When an Italian or another person of European descent calls me a wog it’s done in good warm humour. When the word “wog” comes out of the mouth of an Australian it’s not done in good humour unless they’re a good friend. — Melina Marchetta, Looking For Alibrandi, p. 88, 1992
- Do you reckon what they say in the front bar is right, that wogs eat squid? — Phillip Gwynne, Deadly Unna?, p. 66, 1998
- any language that isn’t English AUSTRALIA
- [S]he can’t see anythink and goes, “Romeo, Romeo, where for art thou Romeo?”, which is wog for “Where are you?”, and he goes “Here,” and they do it. — Kylie Mole (Maryanne Fahey), My Diary, p. 72, 1988
- a germ that causes an illness AUSTRALIA, 1941
- Reckon I’ve got a wog. — Jean Brooks, The Opal Witch, p. 131, 1967
- Dad’s not in a good mood today. He’s laid up with a wog. — Jean Brooks, The Opal Witch, p. 147, 1967
- — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 75, 1971
- Mike, I resolutely refuse to swing anymore. I won’t run the risk of catching any more of those filthy wogs. — Bettina Arndt, The Australian Way of Sex, p. 86, 1985
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