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stogging

stogging is the present participle and gerund 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.

Questions about stogging

What is stogging the present participle and gerund of?
Stogging is the present participle and gerund of stog.

Words near stogging in the dictionary

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

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