Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stog

/stɒɡ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: stog
IPA: /stɒɡ/

5

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To bog down; to cause to be stuck in mud.

Dated

verb

To walk with a heavy or clumsy gait; to plod.

Intransitive verb; Obsolete

verb

To stab; to probe; to thrust

verb

To probe a pool with a pole.

British usage

verb

To smoke a cigarette.

Example Sentences

"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."
"[…] with not even sense enough to see that if Dicker had a mind to walk away from him, good and quick, and leave him half stogged there in the mud, he could do it easy."
"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 […]"

Etymology

Early 19th century, perhaps of expressive origin and influenced by stick and bog. Compare stodge.

Usage

Inflected Forms

stogs (present, singular) stogging (participle, present) stogged (participle, past) stogged (past)

Derived Forms

stodgy

Frequently Paired Words

stock

Synonyms

prod pierce chef chib ching chive enthrill foin gore gride jab job

Rhymes With

dog blog log fog frog blue frog tree frog og hog bog jog prog

Questions

How do you pronounce stog?: The recorded pronunciation is /stɒɡ/.
What does stog mean?: To bog down; to cause to be stuck in mud.
Where does stog come from?: Early 19th century, perhaps of expressive origin and influenced by stick and bog. Compare stodge.

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