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 < ?
Example Sentences
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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
Now den, der tog is right, und der horse, und die pullocks, so you shall gom to my shdore.”
From Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure by W. Boucher
He is a goot tog, und a goot tog ist a goot vrient out in der veldt.
From Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure by W. Boucher
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
He once put on wrestling togs and skull-and-crossbones tattoos for a WrestleMania skit.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2020
When she saw her parents, she ran back inside and changed back into her gray togs, but it was no good: She was sent to a convent school.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2018
“If I’m to conduct a class in a schoolroom, I’d better take off these motoring togs and get into something more suitable,” he said.
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
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
“I think it’s past time we got you togged out, girl.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2010
“We’ll have you togged out in no time.”
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
Most of the fellows who were togging were uneasy.
From The High School Left End Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
As they were to play subs. they did not need to be as early at togging as the members of the team.
From Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
"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
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