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
Athletic nickname iconify, when a school chooses a collection as its athletic nickname, the school typically chooses a related but different mascot that symbolizes that collection. Examples: Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Oklahoma Sooners, Purdue Boilermakers, Illinois Fighting Illini A small number of schools choose an archetypical heroic person as their official athletic nickname. This person may be a graduate of the school who is viewed as embodying the school's mission or an archetypal person who is symbolic of the school's area, such as the West Virginia University Mountaineer. In religiously affiliated schools, this person may be a historical person in the religion