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toggery

toggery noun: clothing, togs.

Noun

toggery (countable and uncountable, plural toggeries)

  1. Clothing, togs.
    • Old Sally, with her kind, mild, grave face, and gray locks, stood modestly behind in the hall; and pretty Lilias, his only child, gave him her parting kiss, and her last grand charge about his shoes and other exterior toggery, in the porch; and he patted her cheek with a little fond laugh, taking...1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “The Rector’s Night-walk to His Church”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 20
  2. A clothing shop.

Forms of toggery

pluraltoggeries

Origin of toggery

From tog + -ery.

Questions about toggery

What does toggery mean?
Toggery means clothing, togs.
What part of speech is toggery?
Toggery is a noun.
What is the plural of toggery?
The plural of toggery is toggeries.

Words near toggery in the dictionary

  1. Toggenburger
  2. Toggenburgers
  3. Toggenburgs
  4. togger
  5. toggeries
  6. toggery
  7. togging
  8. togglability
  9. togglable
  10. toggle
  11. toggle bolt

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