Meanings
spog1
plural spogs
- YorkshireA sweet.
- A sweet consisting of a disc of jelly, usually aniseed-flavoured, covered in sprinkles.
If I have one weakness, it's junk food. Give me your starry rock, your aniseed spogs, your pink sugar mice. I want it all.
2025 February 18, Lili Wilkinson, Deep Is the Fen, Random House, →ISBN, page 1192 more examples
Jelly worms and beans, fudge, chocolate covered peanuts (whoever thought of chocolate covered raisins should go to hell, by the way), bonbons, spogs, smarties, pink and white chocolate mice, razzies.
2020 August 12, A.J. Young, Chaos Rains at Forty-Four, A.J. Young, →ISBN, page 18And if you eat a Malteser at the same time as a handful of licorice jelly spogs - jelly buttons covered in blue and pink sugar balls - it's a really surprising combination.
2024 October 10, Jo Thomas, A Recipe for Christmas: The deliciously heart-warming festive read from the bestselling author of Countdown to Christmas, Random House, →ISBN
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Origin
From Yorkshire dialect of unclear origin, possibly related to dialectal term spice (“sweets”). More specific sense comes from the Yorkshire-based sweet company Bassett's, who used the term to describe one component of their liquorice allsorts mixture.
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spog. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spog
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