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  2. Pogue - Wikipedia

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    One accounting of the word's etymology involves "póg," the Irish language word for "kiss." In this telling it is believed that "pogue" was popularized within the American military by Irish-American soldiers during the American Civil War. The oft-used acronym "POG," standing for "Person Other than Grunt," may have originated as a backronym for ...

  3. POG - Wikipedia

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    Pillars of Garendall (PoG), a role-playing video game; PogChamp, an emote and internet meme originating on Twitch; PogChamps, an online chess tournament "Pog", an Alan Moore-written issue of Swamp Thing paying homage to Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo; One of the two title characters in Pib and Pog, an animated short film created by Aardman ...

  4. PogChamp - Wikipedia

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    CNN describes the use of PogChamp as a gamer's expression for excitement, expanding the use of the PogChamp emote to the word PogChamp and its variants "Pog" and "Poggers" to describe "particularly awesome" moments. [4]

  5. Pogrom - Wikipedia

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    Scope: This is a partial list of events for which one of the commonly accepted names includes the word pogrom. Inclusion in this list is based solely on evidence in multiple reliable sources that a name including the word pogrom is one of the accepted names for that event. A reliable source that merely describes the event as being a pogrom does ...

  6. Taylor Swift delights Dublin fans as she praises Irish ... - AOL

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    During a rendition of her chart-topper We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, a dancer told the crowd “Pog mo thoin” – a cheeky Irish-language phrase meaning ‘kiss my ass’.

  7. Milk caps (game) - Wikipedia

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    Men'uchi from the Edo period were made from clay. They were converted into paper format during the Meiji period.The game of milk caps possibly originated in Maui, Hawaii, during the 1920s or 1930s, [2] [3] or possibly with origins in Menko, a Japanese card game very similar to milk caps, which has been in existence since the 17th century, during the Edo period. [4]

  8. Pogo (comic strip) - Wikipedia

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    Pogo (revived as Walt Kelly's Pogo) was a daily comic strip that was created by cartoonist Walt Kelly and syndicated to American newspapers from 1948 until 1975. Set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States, Pogo followed the adventures of its anthropomorphic animal characters, including the title character, an opossum.

  9. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    The word's true origin is unknown, but it existed in the Middle Scots period. [32] [33] News: The word news has been claimed to be an acronym of the four cardinal directions (north, east, west, and south). However, old spellings of the word varied widely (e.g., newesse, newis, nevis, neus, newys, niewes, newis, nues, etc.).