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語源

From Romani yogger, yogengri (“gun”), from yog (“fire”).

名詞

yogger (複数形 yoggers)

1. (Romani slang) A gun.
   • 1984, Thomas Alan Acton, Donald Kenrick, Romani Rokkeripen To-divvus: The English Romani Dialect and Its Contemporary Social, Educational and Linguistic Standing:

     The vavver mush pulls out a chiv and penned he would mor Joey's dadrus, but his dai got the yogger out and shot the mush in one leg. The dui mushes prasters off in the drag and poggers it up against a rooker and they were lifted to ...

   • 2007, Dominic Reeve, Beneath the Blue Sky: Four Decades of a Travelling Life in Britain

     "They carries yoggers an' all — they'd mar a man for three grand, like me dead father they would."

   • 2013, Horace Silver, Judas Pig, Lulu Press, Inc (→ISBN):

     Only thing is, he tripped up on the stairs, the yogger went bang, as yoggers are apt to do, and he ended up blowing the bottom of his own arm off. One of his brothers, Dennis, panicked, pulled out a revolver, aimed it at Mad Mickey D's nut and ...

   • 2018, Jessie Keane, Fearless: The Most Shocking and Gritty Gangland Thriller You'll Read This Year, Pan Macmillan (→ISBN)

     'I've seen the yogger up there so I got it out of the wardrobe . . .' She was babbling, half-crying with the aftermath of terror. She'd used the old gypsy word for gun and in her panicked state she had't even noticed.