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pogue

n. (''in Ireland'') A kiss

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Pogue

Pogue is pejorative military slang for non- combat, staff, and other rear-echelon or support units. "Pogue" frequently applies to those who do not have to undergo the risk and stresses of combat as the infantry does.

Pogue (surname)

Pogue is a derogatory term.

Pogue is also the name of:

  • Alan Pogue (born 1946), American photojournalist
  • Charles Edward Pogue American film and television writer
  • Charles Nelson Pogue (1897–1985), inventor of a miracle carburettor for petrol engines
  • David Pogue (born 1963), New York Times columnist
  • Donald C. Pogue, American judge
  • Forrest Pogue (1912–1996), US Army historian
  • Harold Pogue (1893–1969), American football player and businessman
  • Justyn Pogue, American musician
  • Ken Pogue (born 1934), Canadian actor
  • L. Welch Pogue (1899–2003), American aviation attorney
  • William R. Pogue (1930–2014), American astronaut

Usage examples of "pogue".

A pogue taken from a dizzy shop-girl containing one silver shilling carried the same penalty at law as a dumby lifted from a rich toff stuffed with Bank of England longtails and jingling with gold sovereigns.

Allan Pogue remembers thinking at the time, All right then, this brown floor with the vats, the oven, and the embalming room are your kingdom at this minute.

A pogue taken from a dizzy shop-girl containing one silver shilling carried the same penalty at law as a dumby lifted from a rich toff stuffed with Bank of England longtails and jingling with gold sovereigns.

Jim Dallas, Will Dallas, Benny Damele, Rick Davidsaver, Donna Deihl, Dale Elliot, Sheri Elms, Charles Fannon, Irene and Walt Fischer, Frank Gavica, Allen Granum, Geneva and Herb Holman, Jimmie Gayle Hurley, Constance Ickes, John Hart Kennedy, Cheryl Knox, Bill Lewis, Noel McElhany, Madaline Meeks, Santy Mendieta, Charlene and Tim Nettleton, Cortland Nielsen, Tommy Ormachea, Tom Pedroli, Wanda Pense, Dee Pogue, Kathi Pogue, Stan Rorex, Deborah Ross, Jerry Sans, Lynn Schild, Norma Schafer, Sam Seals, Jennie Shipley, Sandra and Jim Stevens, Gary Strauss, Shielda Tallich, Jerry Thlessen, Connie Tol-mie, Gene Weller, Mary and Hoyt Wilson, Leland York, and certain others who have requested anonymity.

Danny Pogue, however, was launched almost instantly from the sponge hump of his motorized Brahma—a tumble so spectacular that it brought three Company Cowpokes out of the bronco chute at a dead run.

Danny Pogue said he was hungry again, so they stopped to pick up some chicken nuggets.

It had all cost a pretty penny, Agar was certain of that, and it meant the pogue was well worth having.

Danny Pogue looked frozen and glassy-eyed, like a rabbit trapped in the diamond lane of 1-95.

While Danny Pogue hopscotched through the rubble, Bud Schwartz went directly to the bedroom, which also had been ransacked and vandalized.

They hadn’t come to see her sideman get soused and have evenings where he made the Pogues sound like brilliant musicians.

It was the stickman's job to take the pogue once Teddy had snaffled it, thus leaving Teddy clean, should there be hue and cry and a constable to stop him.

Bud Schwartz and Danny Pogue helped Molly McNamara up the steps of the old house in South Miami.