dial. and U.S. Also zog. [Of obscure origin.] A drowsy or lethargic state; a sleep, doze, stupor.
1874. Miss 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. Sarah Orne Jewett, in Scribner’s Mag., II. 738. Old Ezra Barnet … waved a limp hand warningly toward the bedroom-door.
‘She’s layin’ in a sog,’ he said, hopelessly.
