stogとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Early 19th century, perhaps of expressive origin and influenced by stick and bog. Compare stodge.

動詞

stog (third-person singular simple present stog, present participle stogging, simple past and past participle stogged)

1. (dated, used in passive) To bog down; to cause to be stuck in mud.
   • 1855, Charles Kingsley, chapter 5, in Westward Ho!:

     If any of his party are mad, they'll try it, and be stogged till the day of judgment. There are bogs..twenty feet deep.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk with a heavy or clumsy gait; to plod.
3. (dialect, Scotland) To stab; to probe; to thrust

   Synonyms: prod, pierce; see also Thesaurus:stab

   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 293:

     He studied the cold gray rips in the current and dismounted and loosed the girthstraps and undressed and stogged his boots in the legs of his trousers as he'd done before in that long ago […]

4. (UK, dialect) To probe a pool with a pole.

派生語

• stodgy

関連する語

• stock

語源 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Is it related to stogie?”)

動詞

stog (third-person singular simple present stogs, present participle stogging, simple past and past participle stogged)

1. (dialect, California) To smoke a cigarette.

アナグラム

• GOTs, GTOs, gost, gots, togs