"pogey" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "1891, meaning \"poorhouse\", possibly from British hobo slang. 1954 assistance.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pogeys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "pogey (usually uncountable, plural pogeys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "pogey bait"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-pogey-en-noun-TDsZ7fKP",
      "links": [
        [
          "poorhouse",
          "poorhouse"
        ],
        [
          "workhouse",
          "workhouse"
        ],
        [
          "welfare",
          "welfare"
        ],
        [
          "hostel",
          "hostel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly historical, countable) A poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "historical",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Canadian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 80",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, Michiel Horn, The Great Depression of the 1930s in Canada (Canadian Historical Booklet no. 39), Canadian Historical Association, p 10",
          "text": "There were no jobs for the unemployed, however. And thus many hundreds of thousands went “on the pogey,” although all available evidence indicates that they loathed doing so. To accept relief was an admission of defeat and failure, a humiliating stigma, whether the relief was indirect or direct."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Government financial assistance, particularly employment insurance."
      ],
      "id": "en-pogey-en-noun-PNdWlOsl",
      "links": [
        [
          "financial",
          "financial"
        ],
        [
          "assistance",
          "assistance"
        ],
        [
          "employment",
          "employment"
        ],
        [
          "insurance",
          "insurance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, slang, uncountable, often with the) Government financial assistance, particularly employment insurance."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "with the"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "often",
        "slang",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpəʊɡi/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-pogey.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cc/En-au-pogey.ogg/En-au-pogey.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/En-au-pogey.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "dole"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ],
      "word": "employment insurance"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "EI"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "dated"
      ],
      "word": "unemployment insurance"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "UI"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "word": "pancrack"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "pogey house"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "pogie"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "pogy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pogey"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "1891, meaning \"poorhouse\", possibly from British hobo slang. 1954 assistance.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pogeys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "pogey (usually uncountable, plural pogeys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "pogey bait"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poorhouse",
          "poorhouse"
        ],
        [
          "workhouse",
          "workhouse"
        ],
        [
          "welfare",
          "welfare"
        ],
        [
          "hostel",
          "hostel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly historical, countable) A poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "historical",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Canadian English",
        "English slang",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, Michiel Horn, The Great Depression of the 1930s in Canada (Canadian Historical Booklet no. 39), Canadian Historical Association, p 10",
          "text": "There were no jobs for the unemployed, however. And thus many hundreds of thousands went “on the pogey,” although all available evidence indicates that they loathed doing so. To accept relief was an admission of defeat and failure, a humiliating stigma, whether the relief was indirect or direct."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Government financial assistance, particularly employment insurance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "financial",
          "financial"
        ],
        [
          "assistance",
          "assistance"
        ],
        [
          "employment",
          "employment"
        ],
        [
          "insurance",
          "insurance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, slang, uncountable, often with the) Government financial assistance, particularly employment insurance."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "with the"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "often",
        "slang",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpəʊɡi/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-pogey.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cc/En-au-pogey.ogg/En-au-pogey.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/En-au-pogey.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "dole"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ],
      "word": "employment insurance"
    },
    {
      "word": "EI"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "dated"
      ],
      "word": "unemployment insurance"
    },
    {
      "word": "UI"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "word": "pancrack"
    },
    {
      "word": "pogey house"
    },
    {
      "word": "pogie"
    },
    {
      "word": "pogy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pogey"
}