og n.
(Aus./N.Z.) a shilling.
Materials for a Dict. of Aus. Sl. [unpub. ms.] 107: OGG: slang a shilling. | ||
You’re in the Racket, Too 211: ‘That’ll be eleven shillings, please.’ Eleven og. What a berk. | ||
Cockney 290: The word ogg is rarely if ever used to describe a shilling, but is frequently called into service for a multiplicity of shillings – ‘thirty ogg’, ‘fifty ogg’. | ||
(con. 1930s) Muvver Tongue 17: A shilling : a bob, a deaner, an ogg. |