Meanings
sog1
present singular third person sogs · participle present sogging · participle past sogged · past sogged
- 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
SOG2
plural SOGs
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Summer Olympic Games.
- abbreviationacronymcountablegovernmentAcronym of Special Operations Group, any of various special operations groups whose name is the proper noun form of the common noun.
plural SOGs
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of standard operating guideline.
Near-synonyms: SOP, standard operating procedure
Synonyms: SOP, standard operating procedure
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablenauticalInitialism of speed over ground.
- abbreviationacronymcountablegovernmentAcronym of special operations group.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of singlet-oxygen generator.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*sawwą“moisture, sap, juice”
- Proto-Germanic*sawwijaz
- Old Norse*sǫggr“moist, wet”
- 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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sog. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sog
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