Sunday, July 3, 2011

Oggin

og-gin* (gn)

slang/noun
1. The sea, but just that bit you are closest to.**
There's more to the sea than this oggin you're drowning in.

Synonyms: hogwash, ocean, puddle, salt water, sea, the soup.

* A British slang term that originated in the 1940s as a corruption of the term hogwash.
** Because it just refers to that bit of the sea you are closest to, you can fall in the oggin, but don't talk about the seven oggins; it just wouldn't make any sense.

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