Re: Pogey
Bait
Posted by masakim
on January 20, 2002 In Reply to: Pogey Bait
posted by Jim on January 20, 2002
: I worked several years with
a former US Marine, who, in addition to being "all MC" was a great storyteller.
Many of the stories were related to basic training. Recruits would sometimes receive
packages from home containing cookies, sweets or other "contraband". These treats
were called "Pogey Bait". I'm curious if anyone else has any input on origin, and
also, whether the UK has a similar phrase?
Robert L. Chapman, in _Dictionary
of American Slang, Third Edition_ (1995), writes that "pogey" comes "perhaps fr[om]
the common name of the trash fish menhaden, as suggesting something cheap, common,
and to be caught with bait; perhaps fr[om] the Southern pronunciation of _porgy_,
another fish of a similar quality" and "pogey bait" is "so called because they
could be used in the seduction of boys and young men, _pogue_, into homosexual
acts."
- Re: Pogey Bait James Briggs
01/21/02 (1)
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