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
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.)