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
Here is what emerged: "Glog willich wolloch sog?"
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
All Carthage found itself wavering and poised on tiptoe and clinging to straps; and then it sogged back on its heels and waited till the car should resume progress.
From Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents by Rupert Hughes
Let so much be said of the date-day's sameness; But the tree that neighbours the track, And stoops like a pedlar afflicted with lameness, Knew of no sogged wound or windcrack.
From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Thomas Hardy
The boat sogged along as heavy as though a bunch of weeds trailed across her prow.”
From An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West by Alfred Ernest Rice
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
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
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
But the old earl heeded not the sogging of the wind around his seat.
From Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock
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