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Slang for Employment Insurance or Welfare. Derived from the Scottish word "pogie" which means workhouse. A workhouse being a place in the 1500's where beggars, children and others unable to support themselves were sent to work and in turn be taken care of.
"Fuck working all winter, im just gonna go on pogey like everyone else"
Pogey by outaliner January 23, 2009
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Canadian slang for employment insurance. Commonly used to refer to Newfoundlanders
Those Newfie's sure love to collect the pogey.
pogey by bobbleian January 21, 2009
"Your igloo is on pogey too, eh?"
Pogey by Shazbot December 13, 2004
Pogey: A pogey is a South African bear from the Amazon rain forests of Antarctica. Originally founded by Queen Victoria of New Brunswick the Pogey has formed the staple diet species of the South African Purple Tailed Frilled Mongoose (native to the mountains of Madagascar). Together they live in harmony defending Earth from the aliens from the planet Zimbabwe.
Mark: Whats a pogey?
Smokey: Well Mark, a pogey is...(see definition)
pogey by Shotgun_mofo July 22, 2006
After I caught that Darumaka on Route 4, my team finally had six Pogeys.
Pogey by faggot name taker November 4, 2011
Verb meaning to butt-fuck. Used primarily in connotation with prison.
I pogeyed him in the wazoo-oo-ooh !!!
pogey by Johnny Chingas May 2, 2004