slog
/slɑɡ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.87 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A long, tedious walk or march.
Australian usage; Canadian usage; British usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period.
Australian usage; Canadian usage; British usage; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It is as if Mr. Faulks had bled his own prose white, draining it of emotion in order to capture the endless enervating slog of war."
- "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."
- "There, despite the long slog of the pandemic and all the distracting dramas at headquarters, the schools themselves have mostly kept it together."
- "Alsup wrote that Anthropic preferred to “steal” books to “avoid ‘legal/practice/business slog,’ as cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei put it.”"
- "The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, [...] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable."
- "2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text 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.”"
Etymology
Probably a variation of slug (“to hit very hard”) or slough. Possibly related to slag, seen in the North Germanic languages, in association with the third verb and second noun definition.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /slɑɡ/
- British English: /slɒɡ/