slog
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Probably a variation of slug or slough.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
slog (plural slogs)
- (chiefly Britain and Canada) A long, tedious walk, or session of work.
- 2019 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-0 Brazil”, in BBC News[1]:
- England's experimental line-up will have realised early on that this would be a long, hard slog against the multi-talented Brazilians with great strength in their starting line-up and on the bench.
- (cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
VerbEdit
slog (third-person singular simple present slogs, present participle slogging, simple past and past participle slogged)
- To walk slowly, encountering resistance.
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[2]
- A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[2]
- (by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.
- To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.
SynonymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:walk
TranslationsEdit
to walk slowly, encountering resistance
to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task
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to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat
