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sloggorne

sloggorne is the obsolete spelling of slogan.

Meaning of slogan

Noun

slogan (plural slogans)

  1. A distinctive phrase of a person or group of people (such as a movement or political party); a motto.
    • "Right-ho," I [Bertie Wooster] said, not much liking the assignment, but liking less the idea of endeavouring to thwart this incandescent aunt in her current frame of mind. Safety first, is the Wooster slogan.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
  2. A catchphrase associated with a product or service being advertised.
    Synonyms:
    motto, strapline, tagline
  3. (obsolete) A battle cry among the ancient Irish or highlanders of Scotland.
    • His bugle Wat of Harden blew; / Pensils and pennons wide were flung, / To heaven the Border slogan rung, / "St Mary for the young Buccleuch!"1805, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC...

Forms of sloggorne

pluralsloggornes

Origin of sloggorne

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm.

Questions about sloggorne

What is sloggorne the obsolete spelling of?
Sloggorne is the obsolete spelling of slogan.

Words near sloggorne in the dictionary

  1. slogging away
  2. slogging one's guts out
  3. sloggingly
  4. sloggings
  5. sloggish
  6. sloggorne
  7. sloggornes
  8. slogo
  9. slogos
  10. slogs
  11. slogs away

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sloggorne (page history and authors); slogan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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