tog
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
verb
noun
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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
"I nefer vould acknowledgment dot a tog could peat me!"
From Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends by Standish, Burt L.
He was a splendid-looking buck and he dressed as men dress who've got the money to tog themselves out right back this way.
From Taking Chances by Cullen, Clarence L.
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
Dress in your best green togs and find inspiration in peas, avocados, spinach, and seaweed.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2022
When the 13-year-old mogul decides to help the junior-high nerds, the first thing she does is outfit them from her closets full of fancy togs.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2019
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
Finally Linda angrily turned off the radio and just sat at the table with her head resting in the fluff of clean kiddie togs, overcome by an almost pristine sadness, a feeling of hopelessness.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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
Your mother has asked us to leave you up at the weekend so she can get you togged out and all.”
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
And there’s unclouded glory in occasionally togging him out in spotless white, and beholding him as immaculate as a cherub, if only for one brief half-hour.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
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 Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
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 Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
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