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Shog vs Stog - What's the difference?

shog | stog |

As nouns the difference between shog and stog

is that shog is (archaic) jolt, shake (brisk movement) while stog is haystack.

As a verb shog

is (archaic) to jolt or shake.

shog

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) jolt, shake (brisk movement)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1808, author=John Dryden, title=The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI. (of 18), chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=The shog of the vessel threw a young Chinese (whom Xavier had christened, and carried along with him) into the sink, which was then open. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Dutton Cook, title=A Book of the Play, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Another's diving bow he did adore, Which, with a shog , casts all the hair before, Till he with full decorum brings it back, And rises with a water-spaniel shake. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1899, author=George A. Aitken, title=The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=My learned friend assured me further, that the earth had lately received a shog from a comet that crossed its vortex, which, if it had come ten degrees nearer us, had made us lose this whole term. }}

    Verb

    (shogg)
  • (archaic) to jolt or shake
  • Anagrams

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    stog

    English

    Verb

  • (dated) (used passively) To be bogged, to be stuck in mud.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1855 , author=Charles Kingsley , title=Westward Ho! , chapter=5 , url= , isbn= , page= , passage=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.}}
  • (obsolete) To walk with a heavy or clumsy gait; to plod.
  • (dialect, Scotland) To stab; to probe; to thrust; to prod; to pierce.
  • (dialect, California) To have a cigarette.
  • Derived terms

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    Anagrams

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