ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Wog

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /wɒɡ/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Wog is a noun meaning (Scientology, often attributive) A person who is not a Scientologist.

Meaning

(Scientology, often attributive) A person who is not a Scientologist.

More Meanings

  1. (Australia, UK, dated) To steal.
  2. Clipping of polliwog.
  3. (nautical, slang) A pollywog, or sailor who has never crossed the Equator.
  4. (Australia slang) A bug, an insect.
  5. (British, ethnic slur, dated) A non-white person, originally specifically an Indian. (In later use, more loosely used of various non-white peoples. Now dated and sometimes conflated with gollywog.)
  6. (Australia, originally an ethnic slur) Someone of Mediterranean descent, such as an Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Lebanese, Greek, or Maltese person.
  7. (Australia, WWII slang, obsolete) (Of soldiers stationed abroad) to sell something, especially illicit or stolen goods, to the local inhabitants.

Example Sentences

'Every fucking aussie. Go to Cronulla Beach Sunday for some Leb and wog bashing Aussie Pride ok.'
So yes, they do keep records, but no they are not 'accurate' in the wog world meaning of the word.
I'm of course talking about Hubbard's books (including Book One) being extensively rewritten, and Scn's decision to remove any mention of LRH from materials intended for wogs.
'One of the little Indian girls whose name is Polly has just come in to ask, " Miss D., what is a wog? One white boy called me a polliwog, and I thought a wog must be something bad."'

Word Forms

Synonyms for wog

Depending on context, synonyms include dago, goombah, greaseball, guido, guinea, wop.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wigger, blacky-white, golliwog, woggin, wogbox, wogball.

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