tog, adverb

/tɔx/
Forms:
Also toch.
Origin:
Afrikaans, DutchShow more Afrikaans, from Dutch toch yet, still.
colloquial
An (often phatic) interpolation or intensifer.
1. ‘Indeed’, ‘really’, ‘still’, ‘after all’. See also siestog, foeitog.
1883 M.A. Carey-Hobson Farm in Karoo 115Piet, ever too ready to yield to temptation and get into trouble, but, the trouble once removed, as merry and as light-hearted as a cricket, took up the bundle and said, ‘Oh, my dear master! Thank you! thank you, “toch”!’
1896 M.A. Carey-Hobson At Home in Tvl 213‘Ach! the poor dear creature,’ said the kind-hearted woman, in Dutch, soothing her as she would a child. ‘Ach toch, mynheer! What is it that you have told the poor thing to excite her grief in this manner?’
1900 M. Marquard Lett. from Boer Parsonage (1967) 57This morning at breakfast Murray sighed ‘I wish the war were over’, — ‘why’ asked his mother ‘the tea is toch so bitter’!
1920 S. Black Dorp 228I was toch so sorry to miss the sermon last night; I hear it was splendid.
1930 Outspan 25 July 63‘You have not changed so much after all these years,’ said Alida enviously. ‘I toch have grown so stout.’
1974 A.P. Brink Looking on Darkness 234When at last we were allowed to drive on again, he rubbed his hands together and bowed: ‘Thanks, my Baas tog, the Lord will bless and protect you.’
1982 [see moenie sense 2].
2. Suggesting urgency or impatience: ‘please’, ‘do please’.
1900 H. Blore Imp. Light Horseman 306‘Ach, misses, my misses, my lieve misses toch,’ sobbed the terrified woman, incapable of connected speech.
1912 F. Bancroft Veldt Dwellers 127‘Ma, Ma! wake up, toch!’...With a..snore ending in a terrific snort, Tante Jacoba at last opened her little, faded blue eyes. ‘Wake up, toch, Ma,’ repeated her daughter, impatiently.
1915 D. Fairbridge Torch Bearer 130Here we are at my house — but come in, toch.
1935 P. Smith Platkops Children 152Presently Katisje met another ayah an’ stood showin’ her the perambilator. An’ the other ayah said How wonderful it was, an’ did Katisje think she might jes toch push it a little?
1980 E. Patel They Came at Dawn 9Howsit Mister Black..I am Miss White...Let’s jingle jangle but no tingle tangle. Tog please man?
An (often phatic) interpolation or intensifer.
‘Indeed’, ‘really’, ‘still’, ‘after all’.
‘please’, ‘do please’.
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18831980
toering, nounn.togt, nounn. & adjectiveadj.
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