tog
Americanverb (used with object)
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togs,
present (3rd person singular)
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togged,
past participle, past
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togging
present participle
noun
verb
noun
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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togsimple
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togssimple
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have toggedperfect
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has toggedperfect
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am toggingprogressive
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are toggingprogressive
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is toggingprogressive
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have been toggingperfect progressive
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has been toggingperfect progressive
Past
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toggedsimple
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had toggedperfect
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was toggingprogressive
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were toggingprogressive
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had been toggingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of tog
1775–85; apparently short for earlier cant togeman ( s ), togman cloak, coat, equivalent to toge ( late Middle English < Latin toga toga ) + -man ( s ) obsolete cant suffix < ?
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There have also been questions about Amazon parcel logistics, requests to borrow cereal bowls and what tog duvet other people's children were given.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
If you need a new mattress, spend time choosing one that is appropriate, and make sure your duvet is the right tog for the season.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2018
During a visit to Iceland, she sees native sheep whose coats “grow two distinct kinds of fiber” called tog and thel.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2016
China can not continue tog row at 10 percent forever and we will need to make accommodations for that fact.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2016
He is goot tog ten, and getting himself mended ferry quickly.
From Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure by W. Boucher
Vander Ark, wearing orange jail togs, declined to speak when given the chance and instead shook her head to indicate “no.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
There’s a charming moment in which, showing up in his spanking-new astronaut togs to impress his wife, he ends up washing dishes in her restaurant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
Dress in your best green togs and find inspiration in peas, avocados, spinach, and seaweed.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2022
A new friend of Sam’s is MH, a fierce, super-fit agitator bent on “potential optimization” and “perverse celebration” protesting in expensive togs while dwelling in tony real estate, a designer pose.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2021
It’s like a masquerade party; they are like oversize children, dressed up in togs they’ve rummaged from trunks.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Suitably togged up, he set off on a solo motoring holiday in France.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2020
It is as if my entire childhood was lived out in the cold months, a decade spent togged up in duffel coats and mittens, wellingtons and woolly hats.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2017
“We’ll have you togged out in no time.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2010
“I think it’s past time we got you togged out, girl.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2010
They’re all togged out in blue and white jerseys and white shorts and proper football boots.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
In the home dressing room their most capped prop, Andrea Lo Cicero, recalled to the starting team, will be togging out for the last time.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2013
Francisco Franco lightened the gloom of a generally hostile world by togging himself in hunting clothes and giving a splendid imitation of an old-fashioned candidate for some office or other.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was what "the message of Emerson" meant to Westley, and the novelty of it had seemed to justify what he called "togging up," after a hard day's work at the slaughter-house.
From The Boss of Little Arcady by Harry Leon Wilson
"Poor old Dick!" sighed Darrin one day, as the members of the squad were togging to go on to the field.
From Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
Probably a football player never had more assistance in togging up for a game.
From The High School Left End Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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