π¨π¦ Canadian Word of the Day: Pogey
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Canadian Word of the Day: Pogey'Pogey' is a Canadian slang term for unemployment insurance or social assistance. It is thought to derive from 'pogey,' a 19th-century term for a workhouse or poorhouse. Informal, it has been part of the Canadian vernacular for decades, used to describe the act of collecting benefits, as in 'being on pogey.' #Canada #CanadianSlang #WordOfTheDay #History
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pogey
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Canadian Word of the Day: Pogey
'Pogey' is a Canadian slang term for unemployment insurance or social assistance. It is thought to derive from 'pogey,' a 19th-century term for a workhouse or poorhouse. Informal, it has been part of the Canadian vernacular for decades, used to describe the act of collecting benefits, as in 'being on pogey.' #Canada #CanadianSlang #WordOfTheDay #History
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pogey
@Canadian_Eh I learned it as "ride the pogey horse".
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Canadian Word of the Day: Pogey
'Pogey' is a Canadian slang term for unemployment insurance or social assistance. It is thought to derive from 'pogey,' a 19th-century term for a workhouse or poorhouse. Informal, it has been part of the Canadian vernacular for decades, used to describe the act of collecting benefits, as in 'being on pogey.' #Canada #CanadianSlang #WordOfTheDay #History
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pogey
as distinct from being in the pogey
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Canadian Word of the Day: Pogey
'Pogey' is a Canadian slang term for unemployment insurance or social assistance. It is thought to derive from 'pogey,' a 19th-century term for a workhouse or poorhouse. Informal, it has been part of the Canadian vernacular for decades, used to describe the act of collecting benefits, as in 'being on pogey.' #Canada #CanadianSlang #WordOfTheDay #History
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pogey
@Canadian_Eh The term "collecting pogey" was used by my friends in the 60's and 70's in northern British Columbia. Strangely my spouse who lived in the Cariboo has never heard the word!
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@Canadian_Eh The term "collecting pogey" was used by my friends in the 60's and 70's in northern British Columbia. Strangely my spouse who lived in the Cariboo has never heard the word!
@hyaswawa Interesting indeed. I heard it around western Canada around then, but likely a word that was not mentioned in 'polite' company.
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as distinct from being in the pogey
@teledyn right? Also an interesting word.
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@teledyn right? Also an interesting word.
it may be a borrowed American term or 40's teen slang; my rural-raised but rockabily-educated mom would use expressions like "spent time in the pogey"
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