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Progg?

jkforde · 2012-02-07 12:28:04

howdy folks, I know someone from around Moone who calls dessert or biscuits and cakes 'progg' - would anyone have any idea where this word would've come from?... he doesn't know himself, just says he's just always used it. just curious...

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07-02-2012 1:28pm

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jkforde

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howdy folks, I know someone from around Moone who calls dessert or biscuits and cakes 'progg' - would anyone have any idea where this word would've come from?... he doesn't know himself, just says he's just always used it. just curious...

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#2 07-02-2012 4:25pm
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My grandfather use to keep pigs years ago in Carlow and he says that's where progg comes from. It was another word for slop pigs were fed.

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#3 08-02-2012 2:52pm
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My wife is from Laois and uses the same term for sweets etc, from her father in Abbeyleix. Don't know the origin though.

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