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
Ad wed I try to say a tale, Or sig a little sog, The coffig cubs idtoo be deck Ad tickles dredful strog.
From The Bay and Padie Book Kiddie Songs by Dobbs, Cyril
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 boat sogged slowly forward like a dead thing.
From On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles by Bridges, T. C. (Thomas Charles)
An apathetically persistent rain sogged the seedling-dotted old fields on either side, and the pine-woods beyond, and a high ceiling of unbroken dirty gray gave no promise of clearing.
From Murder in the Gunroom by Piper, H. Beam
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 Rice, Alfred Ernest
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
But the old earl heeded not the sogging of the wind around his seat.
From Literary Lapses by Leacock, Stephen
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