slog

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /slɒɡ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /slɑɡ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

slog (countable and uncountable, plural slogs)

1. (countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada) A long, tedious walk or march.
2. (countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada, by extension) A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period.
   • 1996 February 11, Michael Gorra, “Tunnel Vision”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     It is as if Mr. Faulks had bled his own prose white, draining it of emotion in order to capture the endless enervating slog of war.

   • 2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0 – 0 Brazil”, in BBC Sport‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 2022 February 12, Danny Westneat, “The reason voters see past the terrible headlines with Seattle schools”, in The Seattle Times‎^[3]:

     There, despite the long slog of the pandemic and all the distracting dramas at headquarters, the schools themselves have mostly kept it together.

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

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

1. (intransitive) To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:walk

   • 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)[4]

     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. (intransitive, 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.

• -logs, Glos, Glos., logs

• IPA^(key): /sloːˀ/, [ˈsl̥oˀ]

slog

1. past tense of slå

• sloig

From Old Irish sluicid, from Proto-Celtic *slunketi (compare Welsh llyncu and Breton lonkañ).

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠl̪ˠɔɡ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠl̪ˠʌɡ/

slog (present analytic slogann, future analytic slogfaidh, verbal noun slogadh, past participle slogtha)

1. to swallow

• slogaire

• → Yola: slug

• “slog”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sluicid, slocaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “slogaim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 657
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “sloigim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 657
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “slog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 42

slōg

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of slēan

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ložiti.

slȍg m (Cyrillic spelling сло̏г)

1. syllable
2. stack, pile

• IPA^(key): /sluːɡ/

slog

1. past indicative of slå