An abbreviation of Conestoga. See ‘Dialect Notes,’ i. 229. The word is applied to rough farmers’ shoes, and to common cigars.
1847. I paid for a pair of stoga shoes, made in one of the eastern states.—Joel Palmer, ‘Journal,’ p. 117 (Cincinnati). (Italics in the original.)
1853. How soon will he wear out and be cast into the undistinguishing gutter—boot and shoe, pump and stoga, coming to that at last, and sailing down the muddy torrent, the clown’s brogan jostling the queen’s slipper in that unseemly voyage!—Putnam’s Mag., ii. 31 (July).
