Oggy Oggy Oggy other side of the River Tamar. "Oggy" is a slang term for a Cornish pasty, derived from its Cornish name, ""hoggan"", and was used by local Devon and Cornish sailors at the Devonport Dockyard in reference to pasty sellers who once stood outside the gates. The Devonport marines are still associated with the song which they generally sing at public displays. Tin-miners' wives or pasty sellers supposedly shouted ""Oggy Oggy Oggy"" – the response from any hungry miner or labourer would be "Oi!, Oi!, Oi!." The chant is also the chorus of a folk song and has always been heard
Nickname other conventions; for example, Italian writes the nickname after the full name followed by "detto" 'called' (e.g., "Salvatore Schillaci detto Totò"), in Spanish the nickname is written in formal contexts at the end in quotes following "alias" (e.g. "Alfonso Tostado, alias «el Abulense»"), and Slovenian represents nicknames after a dash or hyphen (e.g., "Franc Rozman – Stane"). The latter may cause confusion because it resembles an English convention sometimes used for married and maiden names. In Viking societies, many people had "heiti", "viðrnefni", or "kenningarnöfn" (Old Norse terms for nicknames) which were used in addition to, or instead of the