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togging

togging is the present participle and gerund of tog.

Meaning of tog

Verb (1)

tog (third-person singular simple present togs, present participle togging, simple past and past participle togged)

  1. (transitive) To dress (often with up or out).
    • “[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. […]”1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

Verb (2)

tog (third-person singular simple present togs, present participle togging, simple past and past participle togged)

  1. (transitive) To fish for tautog.
    • Another mindset that seems to work well for new togging recruits is to ask them to wait until the fish ‘takes the rod down’.2023, Jason Colby, “Tog Jigging: Do It Your Way!”, in The Fisherman

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Questions about togging

What is togging the present participle and gerund of?
Togging is the present participle and gerund of tog.

Words near togging in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: togging (page history and authors); tog (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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