stog
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stɒɡ/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒɡ
Etymology 1
Early 19th century, perhaps of expressive origin and influenced by stick and bog. Compare stodge.
Verb
stog (third-person singular simple present stog, present participle stogging, simple past and past participle stogged)
- (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.
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- (intransitive, obsolete) To walk with a heavy or clumsy gait; to plod.
- (dialect, Scotland) To stab; to probe; to thrust
- 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 […]
- Synonyms: prod, pierce
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- (UK, dialect) To probe a pool with a pole.
Derived terms
- stodgy
Related terms
- stock
Verb
stog (third-person singular simple present stog, present participle stogging, simple past and past participle stogged)
- (dialect, California) To smoke a cigarette.
Anagrams
- GOTs, GTOs, gost, gots, togs
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *stogъ.
Cognate with Upper Sorbian stóh, Polish stóg, Czech stoh, Old Church Slavonic стогъ (stogŭ), and Russian стог (stog).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stɔk/
Noun
stog m (diminutive stožk)
- haystack
Declension
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | stog | stoga | stogi |
| Genitive | stoga | stogowu | stogow |
| Dative | stogoju | stogoma | stogam |
| Accusative | stog | stoga | stogi |
| Instrumental | stogom | stogoma | stogami |
| Locative | stogu | stogoma | stogach |
Further reading
- 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
Romanian
Etymology
From Old Church Slavonic стогъ (stogŭ), from Proto-Slavic *stogъ.
Noun
stog n (plural stoguri)
- stack (of hay)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) stog | stogul | (niște) stoguri | stogurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) stog | stogului | (unor) stoguri | stogurilor |
| vocative | stogule | stogurilor | ||
Scots
Alternative forms
- stug
Verb
stog
- to stab, probe, thrust, prod, pierce
Noun
stog (plural stogs)
- stab, thrust
- thorn
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *stogъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stôːɡ/
Noun
stȏg m (Cyrillic spelling сто̑г)
- stack (of hay, also in computing)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | stȏg | stògovi |
| genitive | stoga | stogova |
| dative | stogu | stogovima |
| accusative | stog | stogove |
| vocative | stogu / stože | stogove |
| locative | stogu | stogovima |
| instrumental | stogom | stogovima |
References
- “stog” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Swedish
Etymology
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.
Verb
stog
- Misspelling of stod.
Volapük
Noun
stog (nominative plural stogs)
- stocking
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | stog | stogs |
| genitive | stoga | stogas |
| dative | stoge | stoges |
| accusative | stogi | stogis |
| vocative 1 | o stog! | o stogs! |
| predicative 2 | stogu | stogus |
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only