Someone once called enlightened natives "Westernized Oriental gentlemen" and the name caught on' (Jackson ), via the initials: R.A.F.: since ca. Any Indian of India (not merely as ) an Arab 'A native. A 'fence' or receiver of stolen goods: low (verging on c.): since ca. to the numerous very hairy caterpillars found in Australia and ex their resemblance to a golliwog doll.-2. The addenda section of the fifth edition of Slang and Unconventional English provides these interesting entries: Regrettably, Partridge provides no guidance as to the meaning of babu here. Wog (or W) A lower-class babu shipping-clerk : nautical : late C. from the first edition (1937) of this dictionary Partridge has this entry for wog: But Eric Partridge, Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English, fifth edition (1961), has multiple entries for both. Like Weekley, Partridge in Origins doesn't have an entry for wog. Florence Upton was born, of British parents, in the USA, where the Golliwogg books were first published. Upton and written by her mother, Bertha Upton the last of them appeared in 1909. Golliwog, better golliwogg, derives from Golliwogg, a fanciful name-? after polliwog, (now mostly AE for) a tadpole, ME polwigle (it wiggles its poll or head)-for the shaggy-haired, rather grotesque black doll of the Golliwogg books illustrated, the first in 1895, by Florence K. Weekley's only entry for golly, however, is as "Negro perversion of God." Weekley doesn't have an entry for wog at all.Įric Partridge, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, fourth edition (1966), has this for golliwog: polliwog, tadpole, which is still common in US. 1929) chiefly Brit, usu disparaging : a dark-skinned foreigner esp : one from the Middle East or Far EastĬonsistent with Merriam-Webster's reading of golliwog, Ernest Weekley, An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (1921) has this entry for golliwog: Golliwog also gollywog or golliwogg n (ca. Merriam-Webster's Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary (2003) shows no hesitancy in declaring the source of the word golliwog:
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