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/ˈpəʊɡi/ · noun
(chiefly historical, countable) A poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc..
There were no jobs for the unemployed, however. And thus many hundreds of thousands went “on the pogey,” although all available evidence indicates that they loathed doing so. To accept relief was an admission of defeat and failure, a humiliating stigma, whether the relief was indirect or direct.
Use pogey when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pogey means (chiefly historical, countable) A poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc..
Common synonyms include dole, employment insurance, EI, unemployment insurance.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
There were no jobs for the unemployed, however. And thus many hundreds of thousands went “on the pogey,” although all available evidence indicates that they loathed doing so. To accept relief was an admission of defeat and failure, a humiliating stigma, whether the relief was indirect or direct.
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