wog

American  

[wog] / wɒg /

noun

Chiefly British Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive.

1. a contemptuous term used to refer to any nonwhite person, especially a dark-skinned person of Middle Eastern or Southeast Asian origin or descent.

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wog ¹ British  

/ wɒɡ /

noun

1. slang a foreigner, esp one who is not White

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wog ² British  

/ wɒɡ /

noun

1. slang influenza or any similar illness

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Other Word Forms

• woggish adjective

Etymology

Origin of wog

First recorded in 1925–30; perhaps shortening of golliwogg

Example Sentences

Having emigrated from Jamaica to London more than three decades earlier, Abel and his childhood friend — the original Stanford — find jobs as the two “chosen wogs” in an all-white ship crew.

From New York Times

"There were certain scenes where Ramanujan is being called a 'wog' and it started to hurt a little. I thought 'I don't feel comfortable about this', and I didn't expect that to happen."

From BBC

"Our woodwork teacher would openly call us wogs. All the kids laughed," says Suresh.

From BBC

“I was asleeb and when I wog, I was wit rope tied.”

From Project Gutenberg

There was not a sardine, not a minnow, not a polly- wog.

From Project Gutenberg