sog

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UK/sɒɡ/US/sɑɡ/

noun

Soft, marsh-like or bog-like land; a swamp.

Less commonScrabble 4

Meanings

sog1

nounsog (plural sogs)

plural sogs

  1. Soft, marsh-like or bog-like land; a swamp.
verbsog (third-person singular simple present sogs, present participle sogging, simple past and past participle sogged)

present singular third person sogs · participle present sogging · participle past sogged · past sogged

  1. transitiveTo 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: Breslich & Foss, →ISBN, page 84
  2. intransitiveTo be soaked, steeped or saturated.

SOG2

proper nounthe SOG (plural SOGs)

plural SOGs

  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Summer Olympic Games.
  2. abbreviationacronymcountablegovernmentAcronym of Special Operations Group, any of various special operations groups whose name is the proper noun form of the common noun.
nounSOG (countable and uncountable, plural SOGs)

plural SOGs

  1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of standard operating guideline.

    Near-synonyms: SOP, standard operating procedure

    Synonyms: SOP, standard operating procedure

  2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablenauticalInitialism of speed over ground.
  3. abbreviationacronymcountablegovernmentAcronym of special operations group.
  4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of singlet-oxygen generator.

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*sawwą“moisture, sap, juice”
  2. Proto-Germanic*sawwijaz
  3. Old Norse*sǫggr“moist, wet”
  4. Englishsog

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.

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Rhymes & wordplay

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