英和和英

語源

1891, meaning "poorhouse", possibly from British hobo slang. 1954 assistance.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊɡi/

名詞

pogey (usually uncountable, 複数形 pogeys)

1. (chiefly historical, countable) A poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc.
2. (Canada, slang, uncountable, often with the) Government financial assistance, particularly employment insurance.
   • 1984, Michiel Horn, The Great Depression of the 1930s in Canada (カナダ用法 Historical Booklet no. 39), Canadian Historical Association, p 10:

     There were no jobs for the unemployed, however. And thus many hundreds of thousands went “on the pogey,” although all available evidence indicates that they loathed doing so. To accept relief was an admission of defeat and failure, a humiliating stigma, whether the relief was indirect or direct.

使用する際の注意点

• Often used in the expression on the pogey or on pogey.

同意語

• dole
• (Canada) employment insurance, EI
• (Canada, dated) unemployment insurance, UI
• (英国用法) pancrack
• pogey house

参考

• pogey bait