woggish

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English

Etymology

From wog +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

Adjective

woggish (comparative more woggish, superlative most woggish)

  1. (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Exhibiting qualities or behaviour considered characteristic of a foreigner
    Synonym: woggy
    • 1960, Manohar Malgonkar, Distant drum, Asia Pub. House, page 60:
      I should have thought that we would have stopped all such woggish activities by now. I mean dancing and things.
    • 1987, Anna Gibbs, Alison Tilson, Frictions, an anthology of fiction by women, Spinifex Press, page 6:
      They were too unrestrainedly ethnic, too woggish (from another point of view), not middle-class enough for my father [...]
    • 2006, Irfan Agha, Uncle Cuckoo, Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pub., page 104:
      Thank God at least you don't speak with a woggish accent.