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stogged

stogged is the simple past and past participle of stog.

Meaning of stog

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!
  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.

Adjective

stogged (comparative more stogged, superlative most stogged)

  1. Stuck in mud or similar; bogged down.
    • A porterbottle stood up, stogged to its waist, in the cakey sand dough.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 3: Proteus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 41

Forms of stogged

comparativemore stogged
superlativemost stogged

Questions about stogged

What does stogged mean?
Stogged means stuck in mud or similar; bogged down.
What is stogged the simple past and past participle of?
Stogged is the simple past and past participle of stog.
What part of speech is stogged?
Stogged is an adjective.

Words near stogged in the dictionary

  1. Stogdon
  2. stoge
  3. stoges
  4. stogey
  5. stogeys
  6. stogged
  7. stoggies
  8. stogging
  9. stoggy
  10. stogie
  11. stogies

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