slang or colloq. [f. TOG sb.1 + -ERY.: cf. drapery, foolery.]
1. Garments; clothes collectively.
1812. Col. Hawker, Diary (1893), I. 44. In spite of all coats, ‘toggerys and upper benjamins.’
a. 1845. Barham, Ingol. Leg., Ser. III. Blasphemer’s Warn. Had a gay cavalier Thought fit to appear In any such ‘toggery.’
1894. Fenn, Real Gold, 47. That’s as much toggery as I can get in the … portmanter.
b. esp. Professional or official dress.
Long toggery = long togs: see TOG sb.1 2 b.
1826. Sporting Mag., XVII. 378. These, with the squire’s pad-groom (all in the same toggery).
1827. Blackw. Mag., XXII. 603. [He] is seen hebdomadally in the pulpit, adorned in clerical toggery.
1837. Marryat, Perc. Keone, xx. Cross had dressed himself in long toggery as a captain of a merchant vessel.
1861. Court Life at Naples, I. 224. Officers in full toggery with clanging swords.
2. The trappings of a horse; harness.
1877. C. D. Warner, Levant, vi. 128. The horse I rode on was not an animal to take advantage of the weakness of his toggery.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 104. I never thought of wanting the regular colts’ toggery.
