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The Oggy Oggy Oggy chant (alternatively spelt Oggie Oggie Oggie or Ogi Ogi Ogi), and its variations, are often heard at sporting events, political rallies and around numerous Scout and Guide campfires, primarily in Britain and some Commonwealth nations. One group will shout Oggy three times, while another will respond with Oi! three times.
Members of the British Royal Navy claim to have used the Oggy Oggy Oggy chant, or a version of it, since the Second World War. [2] Englishman Ron Knox claims to have used the "Oggy" chant while playing for the Box Hill Rugby Club in Melbourne in the late 1960s. Various conflicting stories of how it was introduced from Britain to Australia can ...
An Oggy is a slang term for a Cornish pasty and the tin miner's wives would shout "Oggy Oggy Oggy" when delivering pasties to their husbands. In the 1970s the Welsh folk singer and commedian Max Boyce popularised the chant in order to excite the crowd at his concerts.
2 Aussie use of the chant. 1 comment. 3 Use in Melbourne private secondary schools. ... 6 Cornish miners and Oggy Oggy Oggy. 3 comments. 7 commericial or video in the ...
Oggy, Ogie or Oggie may refer to: Cornish pasty, also called oggy or oggie in the Westcountry of England; Ogie Alcasid (born 1967), Filipino singer-songwriter; Ogie Diaz (born 1970), Filipino actor and comedian; Oggy and the Cockroaches, a franchise and the name of a long-running popular animated slapstick series
Margaret Thatcher, target of the chant "Maggie Out" was a chant popular during the miners' strike, student grant protests, poll tax protests and other public demonstrations that fell within the time when Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The word "oggy" in the internationally popular chant "Oggy Oggy Oggy, Oi Oi Oi" is thought to stem from Cornish dialect "hoggan", deriving from "hogen" the Cornish word for pasty. When the pasties were ready for eating, the bal maidens at the mines would supposedly shout down the shaft "Oggy Oggy Oggy" and the miners would reply "Oi Oi Oi".
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