wog

wog
wog c.1920, "a lower-class babu shipping clerk" [Partridge]; later World War II British armed forces slang for "native of India" (especially as a servant or laborer), possibly shortened from GOLLIWOG (Cf. golliwog). Many acronym origins have been proposed, none found satisfactory.

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