stog

See also: stóg and стог

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɒɡ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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

   • 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.

Derived terms

• stodgy

Related terms

• stock

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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

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

Anagrams

• GOTs, GTOs, gost, gots, togs

Lower Sorbian

stog

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stogъ.

Cognate with Upper Sorbian stóh, Polish stóg, Czech stoh, Old Church Slavonic стогъ (stogŭ), and Russian стог (stog).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɔk/

Noun

stog m inan (diminutive stožk)

1. haystack

Declension

Declension of stog

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	stog	stoga	stogi
Genitive	stoga	stogowu	stogow
Dative	stogoju	stogoma	stogam
Accusative	stog	stoga	stogi
Instrumental	stogom	stogoma	stogami
Locative	stogu	stogoma	stogach

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “stog”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “stog”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic стогъ (stogŭ), from Proto-Slavic *stogъ.

Noun

stog n (plural stoguri)

1. stack (of hay)

Declension

Declension of stog

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) stog	stogul	(niște) stoguri	stogurile
genitive/dative	(unui) stog	stogului	(unor) stoguri	stogurilor
vocative	stogule		stogurilor

Scots

Alternative forms

• stug

Verb

stog

1. to stab, probe, thrust, prod, pierce

Noun

stog (plural stogs)

1. stab, thrust
2. thorn

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stogъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stôːɡ/

Noun

stȏg m (Cyrillic spelling сто̑г)

1. stack (of hay, also in computing)

Declension

Declension of stog

	singular	plural
nominative	stȏg	stògovi
genitive	stoga	stogova
dative	stogu	stogovima
accusative	stog	stogove
vocative	stogu / stože	stogove
locative	stogu	stogovima
instrumental	stogom	stogovima

References

• “stog”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Swedish

Etymology

From the common pronunciation with g instead of d at the end. Might also have been influenced by similar past tense forms of irregular/ strong verbs such as tog, drog and log.

Verb

stog

1. Misspelling of stod.

Volapük

Noun

stog (nominative plural stogs)

1. stocking

Declension

declension of stog

	singular	plural
nominative	stog	stogs
genitive	stoga	stogas
dative	stoge	stoges
accusative	stogi	stogis
vocative 1	o stog!	o stogs!
predicative 2	stogu	stogus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only