tog


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tog1 informal
noun (togs) clothes.

Austral./NZ & Irish a swimming costume.

verb (be/get togged up/out) be or get dressed for an occasion or activity.
– derivatives
toggery noun.
– origin C18: appar. an abbrev. of obs. criminals' sl. togeman(s) ‘a light cloak’, from Fr. toge or L. toga (see toga).



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tog2
noun Brit. a unit of thermal resistance used to express the insulating properties of clothes and quilts.
– origin 1940s: from tog1, on the pattern of an earlier unit called the clo (first element of clothes).
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