stog
See also: stóg
English
Verb
stog (third-person singular simple present stog, present participle stogging, simple past and past participle stogged)
- (dated, used in passive) To bog down; to cause to be stuck in mud.
- 1855, Charles Kingsley, chapter 5, in Westward Ho!:
- 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.
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- (intransitive, obsolete) To walk with a heavy or clumsy gait; to plod.
- (dialectal, Scotland) To stab; to probe; to thrust
- (Britain, dialectal) To probe a pool with a pole.
Derived terms
Related terms
Lower Sorbian

stog
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *stogъ, from Proto-Indo-European *steg-. Cognate with Upper Sorbian stóh, Polish stóg, Czech stoh, Old Church Slavonic стогъ (stogŭ), and Russian стог (stog).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stɔk/
Scots
Alternative forms
Swedish
Etymology
From the common pronunciation with g instead of d at the end.
Volapük
Declension
declension of stog
singular | plural | |
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nominative | stog | stogs |
genitive | stoga | stogas |
dative | stoge | stoges |
accusative | stogi | stogis |
vocative 1 | o stog! | o stogs! |
predicative 2 | stogu | stogus |
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in some later, non-classical Volapük only
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