slog

See also: slóg, sløg, and слог

English

Etymology

Probably a variation of slug (“to hit very hard”) or slough.

Possibly related to slag, seen in the North Germanic languages, in association with the third verb and second noun definition.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slɒɡ/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Noun

slog (countable and uncountable, plural slogs)

1. (uncountable, chiefly Britain, Australia and Canada) A long, tedious walk, or session of work.
   • 2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0 – 0 Brazil”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     England's experimental line-up will have realised early on that this would be a long, hard slog against the multi-talented Brazilians with great strength in their starting line-up and on the bench.

2. (countable, cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.

Verb

slog (third-person singular simple present slogs, present participle slogging, simple past and past participle slogged)

1. To walk slowly, encountering resistance.
   • 1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 419:

     The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, [...] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.

   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[2]

     A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”

2. (by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.
3. To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:walk

Translations

to walk slowly, encountering resistance

• Bulgarian: влача се (vlača se)
• Danish: ase, okse (da), traske
• Finnish: raahustaa, löntystellä (fi)

• Italian: arrancare (it), camminare a fatica
• Polish: taszczyć się
• Russian: идти́ (ru) impf (idtí) с (s) трудом (trudom) (idtí s trudóm)

to work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task

• Bulgarian: бъхтя се (bǎhtja se)
• Russian: вка́лывать (ru) (vkályvatʹ)

• Spanish: pencar (Spain, colloquial)

to strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat

• Bulgarian: удрям силно (udrjam silno)
• Finnish: kumauttaa, iskeä (fi), huitaista

• German: verprügeln (de)

Anagrams

• -logs, Glos, Glos., logs

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sloːˀ/, [ˈsl̥oˀ]

Verb

slog

1. past tense of slå

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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Noun

slȍg m (Cyrillic spelling сло̏г)

1. syllable
2. stack, pile

Declension

Declension of slog

	singular	plural
nominative	slog	slogovi
genitive	sloga	slogova
dative	slogu	slogovima
accusative	slog	slogove
vocative	slogu / slože	slogovi
locative	slogu	slogovima
instrumental	slogom	slogovima

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sluːɡ/

Verb

slog

1. past tense of slå.