spog
UK/spɒɡ/
spog noun: a sweet.
Noun (1)
spog (plural spogs)
- A sweet.
- A sweet consisting of a disc of jelly, usually aniseed-flavoured, covered in sprinkles.
- Jelly worms and beans, fudge, chocolate covered peanuts (whoever thought of chocolate covered raisins should go to hell, by the way), bonbons, spogs, smarties, pink and white chocolate mice, razzies.2020 August 12, A.J. Young, Chaos Rains at Forty-Four, A.J. Young, →ISBN, page 18
- And if you eat a Malteser at the same time as a handful of licorice jelly spogs - jelly buttons covered in blue and pink sugar balls - it's a really surprising combination.2024 October 10, Jo Thomas, A Recipe for Christmas: The deliciously heart-warming festive read from the bestselling author of Countdown to Christmas, Random House, →ISBN
Noun (2) capitalized: SPOG
SPOG (plural SPOGs)
- Acronym of single pane of glass.
Forms of spog
| plural | spogs |
|---|---|
| plural | SPOGs |
Origin of spog
From Yorkshire dialect of unclear origin, possibly related to dialectal term spice (“sweets”). More specific sense comes from the Yorkshire-based sweet company Bassett's, who used the term to describe one component of their liquorice allsorts mixture.
Words that rhyme with spog
Questions about spog
- What does spog mean?
- Spog means a sweet.
- What part of speech is spog?
- Spog is a noun.
- How do you pronounce spog?
- Spog is pronounced /spɒɡ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of spog?
- The plural of spog is spogs.
Words near spog in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: spog (page history and authors); SPOG (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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