stog
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Early 19th century, perhaps of expressive origin and influenced by stick and bog. Compare stodge.
Verb edit
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.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To walk with a heavy or clumsy gait; to plod.
- (dialect, Scotland) To stab; to probe; to thrust
- 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 293:
- 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 […]
- (UK, dialect) To probe a pool with a pole.
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Etymology 2 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Is it related to stogie?”)
Verb edit
stog (third-person singular simple present stogs, present participle stogging, simple past and past participle stogged)
- (dialect, California) To smoke a cigarette.
Anagrams edit
Lower Sorbian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *stogъ.
Cognate with Upper Sorbian stóh, Polish stóg, Czech stoh, Old Church Slavonic стогъ (stogŭ), and Russian стог (stog).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
stog m inan (diminutive stožk)
Declension edit
Further reading edit
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “stog”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “stog”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic стогъ (stogŭ), from Proto-Slavic *stogъ.
Noun edit
stog n (plural stoguri)
- stack (of hay)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) stog | stogul | (niște) stoguri | stogurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) stog | stogului | (unor) stoguri | stogurilor |
vocative | stogule | stogurilor |
Scots edit
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
stog
Noun edit
stog (plural stogs)
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stogъ.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
stȏg m (Cyrillic spelling сто̑г)
- stack (of hay, also in computing)
Declension edit
References edit
- “stog” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From the common pronunciation with g instead of d at the end. Might also have been influenced by similar past tense forms of irregular/ strong verbs such as tog, drog and log.
Verb edit
stog
- Misspelling of stod.
Volapük edit
Noun edit
stog (nominative plural stogs)