prog

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Victuals; provisions of any kind. A low word.--Johnson. This word is often heard in New York and New England in familiar language.


O nephew! your grief is but folly;

In town you may find better prog.--Swift, Miscellanies.

Spouse tuckt up doth in pattens trudge it

With handkerchief of prog, like truth with budget;

And eat by turns plumcake, and judge it.--Congreve.

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