[Perh. phonetically symbolic after stick, bog or the like. Cf. STODGE v., STUG v.]
1. pass. To be stuck in mud, mire, bog or the like; to be bogged.
1855. Kingsley, Westw. Ho! v. 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. Ibid. (1863), Water Babies, ii. 62. Stogged in a mire you never will be, I trust.
1883. M. G. Watkins, In the Country, 7. Let them be in peace, unless you wish to be ‘pixey-led,’ and left ‘stogged’ in a deep swamp.
2. intr. To walk clumsily or heavily; to plod on.
1818. Hogg, Brownie of Bodsbeck, iii. I slings aye on wi’ a gay lang step;… Stogs aye on through cleuch and gill.
1824. Mactaggart, Gallovid. Encycl., 398. How angry did he [a corbie] hotch and stog, And croak about, Owreturning stanes.
1894. J. Shaw, in R. Wallace, Country Schoolm. (1899), 354. Stog, to walk heavily.
