Definition of pogey in English:

noun

• Unemployment or welfare benefit.

  ‘so you want me to end up on pogey?’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Employee theft, depending on the culture of the workplace, private or public, could also seem as Canadian as easy pogey.’
  • ‘Aha, you're thinking: Here comes the justification for those massive subsidies that are sucking money out of the rest of Canada to keep Atlantic Canadians in seasonal work and on pogey.’