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stog

/stɒɡ/

stog verb: to bog down; to cause to be stuck in mud.

Verb (1)

stog (third-person singular simple present stogs, present participle stogging, simple past and past participle stogged)

  1. (dated) To bog down; to cause to be stuck in mud.
    • If any of his party are mad, they'll try it, and be stogged till the day of judgment. There are bogs..twenty feet deep.1855, Charles Kingsley, chapter 5, in Westward Ho!
    • […] with not even sense enough to see that if Dicker had a mind to walk away from him, good and quick, and leave him half stogged there in the mud, he could do it easy.1899, The Cornish Magazine, volume 2, page 175
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk with a heavy or clumsy gait; to plod.
  3. (Scotland, dialectal) To stab; to probe; to thrust
    • He studied the cold gray rips in the current and dismounted and loosed the girthstraps and undressed and stogged his boots in the legs of his trousers as he'd done before in that long ago […]1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 293
  4. (UK, dialectal) To probe a pool with a pole.

Verb (2)

stog (third-person singular simple present stogs, present participle stogging, simple past and past participle stogged)

  1. (California, dialectal) To smoke a cigarette.

Synonyms of stog

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Forms of stog

third-person singular presentstogs
present participlestogging
past participlestogged
paststogged

Origin of stog

Early 19th century, perhaps of expressive origin and influenced by stick and bog. Compare stodge.

Words formed from stog

Words that rhyme with stog

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Questions about stog

What does stog mean?
Stog means to bog down; to cause to be stuck in mud.
What part of speech is stog?
Stog is a verb.
How do you pronounce stog?
Stog is pronounced /stɒɡ/.
What is the past tense of stog?
The past tense of stog is stogged.

Words near stog in the dictionary

  1. Stoffregen
  2. Stoffregens
  3. Stofko
  4. Stofkos
  5. Stoford
  6. stog
  7. stoga
  8. stoga boot
  9. stoga boots
  10. stogas
  11. Stogdill

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