Sog v.

Now dial. Also 9 zog. [Of obscare origin: cf. SOG sb.¹ and Norw. dial. soggjast, søggast, in sense 1.

  The Promp. Parv. has the comb. water-soggon ‘aquosus.’]

  1.  intr. a. To become soaked, or saturated with wet.

1538.  [see SOGGING ppl. a.].

a. 1722.  Lisle, Husb. (1757), 65. The sward of the ground being turned in when wet, lies there sogging. Ibid., 196. Nothing makes peas more subject to open the kids than lying sogging in the wet.

  b.  To sink or soak in. Also with in.

1854.  Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., II. 264. If you don’t make the roof pretty steer for thatching, the wet will sog in.

1881.  Leic. Gloss., 249. The summer wet doon’t sog in deep.

  2.  trans. To steep, soak or saturate.

1854.  Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., II. 264. Shoes are sogged, when they are soaked through with wet and mud.

1860.  Gosse, Rom. Nat. Hist., i. 15. The unwieldy caddis-worms are lazily dragging about their curiously-built houses over the sogged leaves.

1888.  Berks. Gloss., 197. The clo-aths as I hung out to dry be all zogged wi’ the raain.

  Hence Sogging vbl. sb. and ppl. a.

1538.  Leland, Itin. (1769), V. 15. After the Trees wer cut doune sogging Yerth and Mosse over-coverid them.

1879.  Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., 397. I got a pretty soggen [in the thunder-storm].

1910.  M. Hewlett, Rest Harrow, III. iv. Through the sogging rains of Christmas.