sog
/sɒɡ/US/sɑɡ/
sog noun: soft, marsh-like or bog-like land; a swamp.
Noun (1)
sog (plural sogs)
Verb
sog (third-person singular simple present sogs, present participle sogging, simple past and past participle sogged)
- To soak, steep or saturate.
- Two red-coated sportsmen, while hunting close to our village the other day, got into a small but deep pond. They were said to have fallen into the “stank,” and got “zogged” through: for a small pond is a “stank,” and to be “zogged” is equivalent to being soaked.1983 [1898], J. Arthur Gibbs, “The Language of the Cotswolds, with Some Ancient Songs and Legends”, in A Cotswold Village, or Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire, 3rd edition, London...
- To be soaked, steeped or saturated.
Proper noun capitalized: SOG
the SOG (plural SOGs)
- Initialism of Summer Olympic Games.
- Acronym of Special Operations Group, any of various special operations groups whose name is the proper noun form of the common noun.
Noun (2) capitalized: SOG
SOG (countable and uncountable, plural SOGs)
- Initialism of standard operating guideline.
- Near-synonyms: SOP, standard operating procedure
- Synonyms:
- SOP, standard operating procedure
- Initialism of speed over ground.
- Acronym of special operations group.
- Initialism of singlet-oxygen generator.
Synonyms of sog
Forms of sog
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sogs |
| plural | SOGs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sogs |
| present participle | sogging |
| past participle | sogged |
| past | sogged |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | SOGs |
Origin of sog
Of uncertain origin. Possibly of North Germanic origin; compare Icelandic söggur (“moist”), dialectal Norwegian søgg (“moist”), dialectal Swedish sögg, sygg (“something moist”), from Old Norse *sǫggr (“moist, wet”), suggested to be from Proto-Germanic *sawwijaz, a derivative of Proto-Germanic *sawwą (“moisture, sap, juice”), related to Old English ġesēaw (“full of moisture, soaked”), Old English sēaw (“moisture, juice, humour”). The verb is possibly related to soak. Potentially a doublet of sag, also of North Germanic origin; compare dialectal Danish sagge, Norwegian sagga, Swedish sagga, Faroese sagg (“to lag”), and dialectal Swedish sagga (“raining lightly”), Icelandic sagga (“to get damp”), and Old Norse síga, Old Norse sige, Swedish siga (“to sag, sink, slide; to ooze, seep, trickle; to move slowly, drift, glide”), and Old Norse seigr (“viscous”), Faroese seigur, Danish sej, Norwegian seig, Swedish seg (“tough, sluggish”), to the same root as Proto-Germanic *sīganą.
Words formed from sog
Words that rhyme with sog
Questions about sog
- What does sog mean?
- Sog means soft, marsh-like or bog-like land; a swamp.
- What part of speech is sog?
- Sog can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sog?
- Sog is pronounced /sɒɡ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of sog?
- The plural of sog is sogs.
Words near sog in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sog (page history and authors); SOG (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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