Oggy Oggy Oggy at Cornish rugby matches so this seem another possible origin. The Oxford English Dictionary (2004) entry for "Oggy" states: "Oggy, "noun". "West Country regional" (orig. "Cornwall") and "Navy" slang. A Cornish pasty. Probably an alteration of Cornish "hoggan" pastry, pie (18th century), perhaps cognate with Welsh "chwiogen" muffin, simnel cake (1562), of unknown origin." Members of the Royal Navy claim to have used the chant, or a version of it, since the Second World War. The 'Oggie, Oggie, Oggie' chant was used by supporters of the Royal Navy's Devonport Field Gun Team. (The field gun competition was disbanded in 1999
An Item from the Late News An Item from the Late News An Item from the Late News (1982) is a novel by Australian author Thea Astley. The narrator here is arch, sarcastic, oblique Gabby, a painter who, in reaction against her boring upper-middle family, has been through marriage, affairs, bohemianism, and a breakdown..Now, back in her home-town of Allbut, a former mining center that's become a near-ghost town ""in our continental funkerama,"" Gabby is oddly entranced by a newcomer named Wafer--an overage hippie whose only goal is to find ""the perfect bomb shelter."" (His father was a WW II bomb fatality; he's obsessed with Hiroshima.)