stog

• IPA^(key): /stɒɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

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

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stog (third-person singular simple present stog, present participle stogging, simple past and past participle stogged)

1. (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.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk with a heavy or clumsy gait; to plod.
3. (dialect, Scotland) To stab; to probe; to thrust

   Synonyms: prod, pierce; see also Thesaurus:stab

   • 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 […]

4. (UK, dialect) To probe a pool with a pole.

• stodgy

• stock

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stog (third-person singular simple present stogs, present participle stogging, simple past and past participle stogged)

1. (dialect, California) To smoke a cigarette.

• GOTs, GTOs, gost, gots, togs

From Proto-Slavic *stogъ.

Cognate with Upper Sorbian stóh, Polish stóg, Czech stoh, Old Church Slavonic стогъ (stogŭ), and Russian стог (stog).

• IPA^(key): /stɔk/

stog m inan (diminutive stožk)

1. haystack

• 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

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic стогъ (stogŭ), from Proto-Slavic *stogъ.

stog n (plural stoguri)

1. stack (of hay)

• stug

stog

1. to stab, probe, thrust, prod, pierce

stog (plural stogs)

1. stab, thrust
2. thorn

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stogъ.

• IPA^(key): /stôːɡ/

stȏg m inan (Cyrillic spelling сто̑г)

1. stack (of hay, also in computing)

• “stog”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

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.

stog

1. misspelling of stod

stog (nominative plural stogs)

1. stocking