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tog

noun
🔊/tɒɡ/
🔊/tɑːɡ/
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  1. togs
     [plural] (informal, becoming old-fashioned) clothes, especially ones that you wear for a particular purpose（尤指专用的）衣服，服装
    • running togs跑步装
  2. (British English) a unit for measuring how warm bed covers such as duvets are 托格（显示羽绒被褥等保暖性的热阻计量单位）
    3. Word Originnoun sense 1 early 18th cent. (as a slang term for a coat or outer garment): apparently an abbreviation of obsolete criminals' slang togeman(s) ‘a light cloak’, from French toge or Latin toga, related to tegere ‘to cover’. noun sense 2 1940s: from tog ‘clothes’, on the pattern of an earlier unit called the clo (first element of clothes).

tog

verb
🔊/tɒɡ/
🔊/tɑːɡ/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they tog
🔊/tɒɡ/
🔊/tɑːɡ/
he / she / it togs
🔊/tɒɡz/
🔊/tɑːɡz/
past simple togged
🔊/tɒɡd/
🔊/tɑːɡd/
past participle togged
🔊/tɒɡd/
🔊/tɑːɡd/
-ing form togging
🔊/ˈtɒɡɪŋ/
🔊/ˈtɑːɡɪŋ/
Idioms
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    Word Originverb early 18th cent. (as a slang term for a coat or outer garment): apparently an abbreviation of obsolete criminals' slang togeman(s) ‘a light cloak’, from French toge or Latin toga, related to tegere ‘to cover’.
Idioms
be togged out/up (in something)
  1. (informal) to be wearing clothes for a particular activity or occasion穿着（适合某种活动或场合）的服装
    • They were all togged up in their skiing gear.他们全都身着滑雪服。🔊🔊