tog2 (tog)

[A slang term, perhaps cut! Look at his togs -superfine cloth, and the heavy-swell Dickens , Oliver Twist, xvi. What did I do but go to church with all my topmost togs! And that not from respect alone for the parson. R. D. Black more , Maid of Sker, vii. Long tog, a coat. Tuft's Glo ary of Thieves' Jargon, 1798.-Long togs ( naut .), shore clothes. I took no " long togs " with me;... being dre ed like the rest, in white duck trousers, blue jacket, and straw hat. R. H. Dana , Jr. , Before the Mast, p. 131. tog2 (tog), v . t.; pret. and pp. togged , ppr. tog ging . [ tog2 , n.] To dre . [Slang.] He was tog'd gnostically enough. Scott , St. Ronan's Well, iv. Scrumptious young girls you tog out so finely, Adorning the diggings so charming and gay. Chambers's Journal, July, 1879, p. 368. ( Encyc . Dict.)