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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'wog' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions wog noun  (British, _, slang) A pejorative term for any dark-skinned person. Most commonly used to refer to people of Indian, North African, Mediterranean, or Middle Eastern ancestry. (context, Australian, _, slang, pejorative) A person of Southern European, Mediterranean (especially Italian, Lebanese, and Greek people), or Middle Eastern ancestry or in some cases, Eastern European ancestry (c.f. wop). Abbreviation of polliwog (Australian English) A minor illness (context, Scientology) A person who is not a Scientologist (context, piping/valves) WOG = water-oil-gas, typically marked on valves indicating acceptable for use with these fluids Etymology: The etymologies of the British and Australian slang terms are uncertain; however, many dictionaries state the term is perhaps an abbreviation of golliwog.The Scientology term is a coinage by w:L. Ron Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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