tog

noun

/tɒɡ/

/tɑːɡ/

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togs
[plural] (informal, becoming old-fashioned) clothes, especially ones that you wear for a particular purpose
- running togs
(British English) a unit for measuring how warm bed covers such as duvets are

Word Originnoun sense 1 early 18th cent. (as a slang term for a coat or outer garment): apparently an abbreviation of obsolete criminals' slang togeman(s) ‘a light cloak’, from French toge or Latin toga, related to tegere ‘to cover’. noun sense 2 1940s: from tog ‘clothes’, on the pattern of an earlier unit called the clo (first element of clothes).

tog

verb

/tɒɡ/

/tɑːɡ/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they tog	/tɒɡ/ /tɑːɡ/
he / she / it togs	/tɒɡz/ /tɑːɡz/
past simple togged	/tɒɡd/ /tɑːɡd/
past participle togged	/tɒɡd/ /tɑːɡd/
-ing form togging	/ˈtɒɡɪŋ/ /ˈtɑːɡɪŋ/

Idioms

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Word Originverb early 18th cent. (as a slang term for a coat or outer garment): apparently an abbreviation of obsolete criminals' slang togeman(s) ‘a light cloak’, from French toge or Latin toga, related to tegere ‘to cover’.

Idioms

be togged out/up (in something)

(informal) to be wearing clothes for a particular activity or occasion
- They were all togged up in their skiing gear.