pog
/pɒɡ/US/pɑɡ/
pog adjective: awesome, excellent, remarkable.
Adjective
pog (comparative more pog, superlative most pog)
- Awesome, excellent, remarkable.
- Dude, that was pog!
Interjection
- Used to denote excitement.
- I just got my paycheck for the month. Pog!
Verb
pog (third-person singular simple present pogs, present participle pogging, simple past and past participle pogged)
- To open one's mouth in surprise or excitement in an exaggerated manner.
- He was so excited, he pogged.
- I pogged so hard, I just, like, broke my jaw2020, Easy Bake: Hard Mode, spoken by Jerma985
Noun (1)
pog (plural pogs)
- A phrase that positively compliments something; praise.
- Pogs in the chat!
Noun (2)
pog (plural pogs)
- A single (usually brightly colored) piece in the game of milk caps.
- […] he was giving out “pogs,” and before long every elementary schoolyard on Oahu had a pog champion.1996, Islands Magazine, volume 16, number 2, page 26
- The basic modern 'Pog' game is played thus. Each child tosses a pog into the arena, face-up or face-down, as agreed. Each player in turn takes his slammer and pitches it hard onto the accumulated pile of pogs.1997, Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Opie, Children's Games with Things, page 120
- Synonyms:
- milk cap
Noun (3) capitalized: POG
POG (countable and uncountable, plural POGs)
- Acronym of personalized oncogenomics.
- Acronym of person other than grunt, a member of military staff other than infantry.
- Alternative form of pog (“milk cap”).
- Acronym of planogram.
Synonyms of pog
Forms of pog
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more pog |
| superlative | most pog |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pogs |
| present participle | pogging |
| past participle | pogged |
| past | pogged |
| Noun | |
| plural | pogs |
| plural | POGs |
Origin of pog
English pog Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-der. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ém-po-s Proto-Italic *kampos Latin campusbor. Proto-West Germanic *kamp Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-West Germanic *-jan Proto-West Germanic *kampijan Proto-Germanic *-jô Proto-West Germanic *-jō Frankish *kampijōbor. Medieval Latin campiō Old French champiunbor. Middle English champioun English champion English champ English pogchamp English pog A clipping of PogChamp, an emoticon used on streaming site Twitch.tv, depicting streamer Ryan Gutierrez and derived from his 2011 video called "Pogs Championship" where he wins a game of Pogs. The game is named after the drink Passion Orange Guava, abbreviated POG. An erroneous folk etymology states that pog is an acronym for "play of the game," as the term is commonly used within the video game streaming community.
English pog Genericization of the trademark POG. From juice brand POG (Passion Fruit, Orange, Guava). From the POG brand supplying cardboard milk bottle cap liners as playing pieces for milk caps.
Words formed from pog
Questions about pog
- What does pog mean?
- Pog means awesome, excellent, remarkable.
- What part of speech is pog?
- Pog can be an adjective, an interjection, a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce pog?
- Pog is pronounced /pɒɡ/ (UK).
Words near pog in the dictionary
Source and license
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