Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To plunge a stick down through (the soil), in order to ascertain its depth; probe (a pool or marsh) with a pole.
- To plunge and fix in mire; stall in mud; mire.
- To plant the feet slowly and cautiously in walking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb dated (used passively) To be
bogged , to be stuck in mud. - verb intransitive (
obsolete ) To walk with a heavy or clumsygait ; toplod . - verb dialect, Scotland To
stab ; toprobe ; tothrust ; toprod ; topierce . - verb dialect, California To have a
cigarette ; To smoke a stog.
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Examples
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Nikolai did not stog to think: he laid with blind desperation into what resistance he found, clearing a path, because an old fool on a pony was coming behind him, and there was the light down there, the only relief from the night around them.
The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992
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"Take a stog!" he remarked without getting up, and indicating with the toe of one Congress-booted foot the box which lay open adjacent to the
By Advice of Counsel Arthur Cheney Train 1910
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I looked to see if he would stog himself there or turn aside; but he knew the place better than I, and that just under the soft mud the sand lay firm and, sure.
Secret of the Woods William Joseph Long 1909
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And so he stroke him twyse or thrise trowght with a stog sweard; and so he fell, never word heard out of his mouth, but [SN: THE CARDINALLIS LAST
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Sir Hugh Evans is not the only person who disliked being made a ` vlouting-stog. '"
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