▪ I. sog, n.1 Now s.w. dial.
(sɒg)
Also 6 sogge, 9 zog.
[Related to sog v.]
A soft or marshy piece of ground; a swamp, bog, quagmire.
| 1538 Leland Itin. (1769) V. 86 The Pastures..rottith on the Ground, and maketh Sogges and Quikke More. 1805 W. H. Marshall Rur. Econ. W. Eng. (ed. 2) I. 398 Sog, a quagmire. a 1887 Jefferies Field & Hedgerow (1892) 275 The ‘sog’ or peaty place where the spring rises. |
▪ II. sog, n.2 dial. and U.S.
(sɒg)
Also zog.
[Of obscure origin.]
A drowsy or lethargic state; a sleep, doze, stupor.
| 1874 S. P. Fox Kingsbridge (ed. 2) 268 A bit of a zog. 1880 W. Cornwall Gloss. 53/1 She is in a sweet sog. 1887 Scribner's Mag. II. 738 Ezra..waved a limp hand warningly toward the bedroom-door. ‘She's layin' in a sog,’ he said. |
▪ III. sog, n.3 ? Obs.
A large whale.
| 1839 Knickerbocker XIII. 379 He was a most extraordinary fish; or, in the vernacular of Nantucket, ‘a genuine old sog’, of the first water. 1850 Scoresby Cheever's Whalem. Adv. xii. 164 There she blows! Oh, she's a beauty! A regular old sog! A hundred⁓barreler! 1851 H. Melville Moby Dick II. xxxix. 261 Such a sog! such a sogger! Don't ye love sperm! |
▪ IV. sog, v. Now dial.
(sɒg)
Also 9 zog.
[Of obscure origin: cf. sog n.1 and Norw. dial. soggjast, s{obar}ggast, in sense 1.
The Promp. Parv. has the comb. water-soggon ‘aquosus’.]
1. intr. a. To become soaked, or saturated with wet.
| 1538 [see sogging ppl. a.]. a 1722 Lisle Husb. (1757) 55 The sword of the ground being turned in when wet, lies there sogging. Ibid. 169 Nothing makes peas more subject to open the kids than lying sogging in the wet. |
b. To sink or soak in. Also with in.
| 1854 A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss. II. 264 If you don't make the roof pretty steer for thatching, the wet will sog in. 1881 Leic. Gloss. 249 The summer wet doon't sog in deep. |
2. trans. To steep, soak, or saturate.
| 1854 A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss. II. 264 Shoes are sogged, when they are soaked through with wet and mud. 1888 Berks. Gloss. 197 The clo-aths as I hung out to dry be all zogged wi' the raain. |
Hence sogging vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1538 Leland Itin. (1769) V. 15 After the Trees wer cut doune sogging Yerth and Mosse over-coverid them. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-Bk. 397, I got a pretty soggen [in the thunder-storm]. 1910 M. Hewlett Rest Harrow iii. iv, Through the sogging rains of Christmas. |