different between doggish vs woggish

English

Etymology

dog +? -ish

Adjective

doggish (comparative more doggish, superlative most doggish)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a dog.

   Synonym: doggy

2. Resembling a mongrel dog, notably in its worst qualities.

   Synonym: currish

3. Stylish in a showy way. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• doggishly
• doggishness

Translations

English

Etymology

wog +? -ish

Pronunciation

Adjective

woggish (comparative more woggish, superlative most woggish)

1. (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Exhibiting qualities or behaviour considered characteristic of a wog
   • 1960 Manohar Malgonkar, Distant drum, Asia Pub. House, p60

     I should have thought that we would have stopped all such woggish activities by now. I mean dancing and things.

   • 1987 Anna Gibbs & Alison Tilson, Frictions, an anthology of fiction by women, Spinifex Press, p6

     They were too unrestrainedly ethnic, too woggish (from another point of view), not middle-class enough for my father [...]

   • 2006 Irfan Agha, Uncle Cuckoo, Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu, p104

     Thank God at least you don't speak with a woggish accent.