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
Two toughened adventurers annoyed and battled with each other all over the world until at last they clamped together in the heat and sog of the tropics.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was settin' here in a sog like, and didn't hear ye.
From Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 by Various
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
At half past nine, with the booming drums of the parade sounding up the street, the shivering form of Dwindle Daniels was again sogged down to its original saturation point.
From Lady Luck by Hugh Wiley
His dinner was brought slopped from one dish to another and covered by a gray hospital towel sogged with the liquids.
From The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis by Thomas Dixon
Around it was nothing but rain sogged meadows that scarcely rose above the salt marshes that ran to the dunes where the Atlantic was beating.
From The Unspeakable Gentleman by John P. (John Phillips) Marquand
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
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
Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
But the old earl heeded not the sogging of the wind around his seat.
From Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock
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