Tog, a coat. Latin, TOGA.—Ancient Cant.
Tog, to dress, or equip with an outfit; “TOGGED out to the nines,” dressed in the first style.
Toggery, clothes, harness, domestic paraphernalia of any kind.
Togs, clothes; “Sunday TOGS,” best clothes. One of the oldest cant words—in use in the time of Henry VIII. See [CANT].
Toke, dry bread. Sometimes used to denote a lump of anything.
Toko for yam, a Roland for an Oliver. Possibly from a system of barter carried on between sailors and aborigines.
Tol-lol, or TOL-LOLLISH, tolerable, or tolerably.
Toll-shop, a Yorkshire correspondent gives this word as denoting in that county a prison, and also the following verse of a song, popular at fairs in the East Riding:—
“But if ivver he get out agean,
And can but raise a frind,
Oh! the divel may tak’ TOLL-SHOP,
At Beverley town-end!”
This is but a variation of the Scottish Tolbooth.