pogue

See also: Pogue and pogué

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /poʊɡ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəʊɡ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊɡ

Etymology 1

From Irish póg, from Latin pāx. Doublet of peace.

Noun

pogue (plural pogues)

1. (Ireland) A kiss.
   • c1670, anonymous author, “Purgatorium Hibernicum”, in Andrew Carpenter, editor, Verse in English from Tudor and Stuart Ireland‎, Cork University Press, published 2003, page 416:

     'Sure, sure' sayes Nees, 'she does but jeast, It's not de nature of de beast; Praise dee here, mee joly rogue, And gave de [me] one litle Poge For old acquaintance, for it's dee Dat is mee only gra-ma-cree.' 'Kiss mee? Poo! Fart upon dee, Nees!'

   • c1707, Henry Playford, Wit and Mirth: Or, Pills to Purge Melancholy: Being a Collection of the Best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New. Fitted to All Humours, Having Each Their Proper Tune for Either Voice, Or Instrument: Most of the Songs Being New Set.‎, volume 4, London: W. Pearson for J. Tonson, page 278:

     […] He ask'd for one Pogue, she call'd him a Rogue, And struck him with her Brogue, […]

Etymology 2

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Noun

pogue (plural pogues)

2. (dated, slang) A purse; hence, money.
3. (US, slang) A young, male, passive homosexual.

Etymology 3

Noun

pogue (plural pogues)

1. (US, military slang) Alternative form of POG (“non-infantry member of the military”).

   Alternative form: POGUE

   Antonym: grunt

   • 2002, Jonathan Shay, Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming

     Although he is noteworthy for the staff jobs he does for the commander in chief, Agamemnon, he's no rear-echelon pogue.

Further reading

• pogue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• OED (online) 2008
• “pogue”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pogue”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Yao (South America)

Verb

pogue

1. to strike, to kill

Further reading

• de Laet, Johannes (1633) Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 643