sog
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sogs
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British. in some dialects, a state of sleep or drowsiness.
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Archaic. whale.
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sogs
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verb
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Keep your rain boots by the door, because the sog has just begun.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2024
Even the sog factor couldn’t deter me from finishing this sandwich.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2020
Never would I sog them down with syrup!
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2018
Terrible tears that drench and clog and sog* rather than drain off.
From Time Magazine Archive
“He was in a sog when I put him to bed,” said the cook.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
While it sogs relatively quickly, the soft pabulum that remains is still tasty, and sloughs off just enough of that cinnamon and sugar to make a satisfying bowl of cereal milk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2019
On this happiest of happy nights, a wet wool blanket of melancholy sogged itself over me.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2012
I kept nodding, faking a smile, and then he hugged me, his strong arms pulling me into his muscular chest, and I sogged up his polo shirt a little but then recovered enough to speak.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
The rain still sogged down, and—ye gods! the Kid was tired.
From No Man's Land by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
The stern of the Marie Louise had burned off and sogged down in deep water, but her bow hung to the reef, and in smoke and flame he had fought the cattle over it.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Edison Marshall
Hard winter weather had now set in, with fog, frost and water sogged ground.
From The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 by John W. Arthur
Spring swept on across the state, wrenching at homes, uprooting trees, blocking highways and railroads, swelling rivers and streams' and sogging levees to wrap up Northern California's wettest winter since 1890.
From Time Magazine Archive
Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Mike was firing away, sogging Webb from head to toe, and Webb was standing there taking it, like the day he refused to have a water-gun fight with me.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
The farther they went in, though, the tighter Grandpop’s grip got, and soon sweat was coming from his hands, sogging up Genie’s shirt.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
The poet and his disciple continued their partnership through the sogging rains of Christmas, well into the chill opening of the new year.
From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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