1823. Egan, Randall's Scrap Book. And with his upper togger gay, Prepared to toddle swift away.
1825. Scott, St. Ronan's Well, iv. He was tog'd gnostically enough.
1835. Dana, Before Mast, 131. I took no long togs with me; . . . being dressed like the rest, in white duck trousers, blue jacket, and straw hat.
1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, 'St. Romwold.' Had a gay cavalier thought fit to appear In any such toggery . . . He'd have met with a highly significant sneer.
1838. Dickens, Oliver Twist, xvi. Look at his togs, superfine cloth and the heavy swell cut.
1844. Selby, London by Night, ii. 1. My togs being in keeping with this nobby place.
1869. Greenwood, Seven Curses of London. She's a dress-woman . . . one . . . they tog out that they may show off at their best, and make the most of their faces. Ibid. (187 ). Night in a Workhouse. Your suit of toggery ain't a very flash 'un.
1872. Blackmore, Maid of Sker, vii. What did I do but go to church with all my topmost togs.
1879. Chambers' Jo., 368. Scrumptious young girls you tog out so finely.
1884. James, Little Tour, 150. Two . . . were gendarmes in full toggery.
1889. Thor Fredur, Sketches. In London many female servants seldom remain long in one situation; just long enough to get togged and fed up.
1898. Marshall, Pomes, 8. I took these togs to pawn, But uncle only looked at me and swore. Ibid., 88. He was togged in his best, and so were the rest, Of his pals.
1900. Savage, Brought to Bay, v. Julian sported his . . . English togs, and Texas Dave was again a typical cowboy.
1900. Flynt, Tramps, 130. Wimmens'es togs haint up ter the men's.
1901. Free Lance, 9 Feb., 459. 1. No 'quick-change artist' could have had a larger assortment of 'togs.'
Toheno (or Tohereno), adj. (back slang).—Very nice. [That is, 'hot one.']
Toke, subs. (common).—Generic for food; rub (q.v.): spec. bread. Also (rare) = a piece, lump, portion.
1877. Five Years' Penal Servitude, i. Some prisoner who . . . had forgotten to eat what in prison slang is called his toke or chuck.
1898. Marshall, Pomes, 62. To a coffee-house he hied, And consumed some unkind Mocha, half a haddock, and some TOKE.
1899. Whiteing, John St., xx. When the show was shut, I . . . sits down to my toke and pipe.
Verb (The Leys School).—To LOAF (q.v.); to idle.
Token, subs. (venery).—1. The female pudendum: set Monosyllable. Also THE TOKEN (Grose) = venereal disease: e.g. 'She tipped him the token' (= 'She gave him a clap or pox').
d. 1529. Skelton, Elynour Rummyng, 492. An old rybybe . . . At the threshold comying in, And fell so wyde open That one myght see her token . . . Said Elynour Rummyng . . . Fy, couer thy shap.
2. (old).—The plague (B. E. and Grose): also the characteristic spots of the disease on the body.
3. (old).—A farthing: hence a small standard of value (B. E.). [Properly a tradesman's 'small change,' of the nominal values of 1d., 1/2d., and £d.] Also Tom-fool's token = money (B. E.).
Toko. See Toco.
See Bullock's Heart.
Tol, subs. (back slang).—Lot of stock; share.
1851-61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab. and Lond. Poor. How is a man to sell fine cherries at 4d. when there's a kid alongside of him a selling his tol at 2d. a pound?
