Crossword clues for wog
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1920, "a lower-class babu shipping clerk" [Partridge]; but popularized in World War II British armed forces slang for "Arab," also "native of India" (especially as a servant or laborer), roughly equivalent to American gook; possibly shortened from golliwog. Many acronym origins have been proposed, but none has been found satisfactory. Related: Wogland.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context British slang pejorative ethnic slur English) Any dark-skinned person. Most commonly used to refer to people of Indian, North African, Mediterranean, or Middle Eastern ancestry. 2 (context Australia slang pejorative ethnic slur English) A person of Southern European, Mediterranean (especially Italian, Croatian, Lebanese, Greek, Serbian, Macedonian and Bosnian people). Etymology 2
n. 1 Abbreviation of polliwog 2 (context nautical slang English) Short for pollywog, or a sailor who has never crossed the Equator. Often referred to as either filthy, slimy, or even dirty wogs Etymology 3
n. (context Australia slang English) A minor illness, a bug, an insect or parasite. Etymology 4
n. (context Scientology English) an acronym for "Without Goals", i.e. a person who is not a Scientologist. Etymology 5
n. (context piping/valves English) WOG = water-oil-gas, typically marked on valves indicating acceptable for use with these fluids. Etymology 6
vb. (context slang English) To steal.
WordNet
n. an offensive slang term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia
Wikipedia
Wog is a slang word in the idiom of Australian English and British English, usually employed as an ethnic or racial slur and considered derogatory and offensive.
In British English, wog is an offensive racial slur usually applied to Middle Eastern and South Asian peoples. In Australian English, wog is a term used as a racial slur for people from Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean region in general, and the Mediterranean region of the Middle East.
WOG is a corporation that operates a national chain of gasoline stations and convenience stores in Ukraine. The firm is based from Lutsk, Ukraine. It is a leading brand of gas station in Ukraine, and it was first national gas station network in the country.
Usage examples of "wog".
Slanting upslope in the direction of our gallant wog adversaries, just enough to hold a hundred-liter urn, you know, the type they use for oil and wine around here?
He caught it on the bayonet, pivoted the rifle and buttstroked the wog in the face.
Those wog cretins just let them sit in the grease they got them in from the factory.
Pains me sommat awful, they does, since that fukkin' wog bastid of a raghead, beggin' yer Reverence's pardon, knocked 'em out.
One of the wogs was singing, sounding like a man biting down on a cat's tail.
Starshells burst over the wog entrenchments, throwing a flickering blue-white magnesium light.
A string of lights across the water: sentinel-lanterns along the wog pontoon bridge.
Mandy was good, and a friend, but she knew how to treat these wogs, and, best of all, she didn't have to starve herself like a bloody runway model.
Unlike the WOGs and the Cauldwellites, the Sabras were highly competent and not unhinged by fanaticism.
The day an RCN battleship can't see off a couple wogs, I'll join the priesthood.
At the exit of the tunnel were shellbacks with saltwater hoses to rinse off the garbage, but the wogs were only beginning their odyssey.
The wogs slithered through this mess to the other side, where shellbacks helped them out, wiped them down, and congratulated them heartily.
Dem wogs, dey get all black 'n swole up real fast, 'n den dey pops lika grape when yu—"
They'd done the same thing here in Sandoral for material to build earthwork forts, in the last campaign against the wogs a few years ago.
These wogs used their heads for something besides holding their turbans up.