sog
1 Americannoun
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British. in some dialects, a state of sleep or drowsiness.
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Archaic. whale.
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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
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
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 Dixon, Thomas
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 Wiley, Hugh
The boat sogged slowly forward like a dead thing.
From On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles by Bridges, T. C. (Thomas Charles)
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
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
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 Hewlett, Maurice Henry
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