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sog^¹

/sɒɡ/ UK
/sɑɡ/ US

Rhymes with -ɒɡ

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Of uncertain origin. Possibly of North Germanic origin; compare Icelandic söggur (“moist”), dialectal Norwegian søgg (“moist”), dialectal Swedish sögg, sygg (“something moist”), from Old Norse *sǫggr (“moist, wet”), suggested to be from Proto-Germanic *sawwijaz, a derivative of Proto-Germanic *sawwą (“moisture, sap, juice”), related to Old English ġesēaw (“full of moisture, soaked”), Old English sēaw (“moisture, juice, humour”). The verb is possibly related to soak.

Potentially a doublet of sag, also of North Germanic origin; compare dialectal Danish sagge, Norwegian sagga, Swedish sagga, Faroese sagg (“to lag”), and dialectal Swedish sagga (“raining lightly”), Icelandic sagga (“to get damp”), and Old Norse síga, Old Norse sige, Swedish siga (“to sag, sink, slide; to ooze, seep, trickle; to move slowly, drift, glide”), and Old Norse seigr (“viscous”), Faroese seigur, Danish sej, Norwegian seig, Swedish seg (“tough, sluggish”), to the same root as Proto-Germanic *sīganą.

noun sogs

Soft, marsh-like or bog-like land; a swamp.

verb sogs · sogging · sogged

transitive To soak, steep or saturate. Two red-coated sportsmen, while hunting close to our village the other day, got into a small but deep pond. They were said to have fallen into the “stank,” and got “zogged” through: for a small pond is a “stank,” and to be “zogged” is equivalent to being soaked.
intransitive To be soaked, steeped or saturated.

SOG^²

proper noun the SOG · SOGs

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abbreviation, acronym, countable Acronym of Special Operations Group, any of various special operations groups whose name is the proper noun form of the common noun.

noun SOGs

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Similar: SOP, standard operating procedure
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@misc{sog_2026,
  title = {sog},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sog},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

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