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

Noun

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.
    • 2025 June 25, Lee Chong Ming, quoting William Alsup and Dario Amodei, “Anthropic cut up millions of used books to train Claude — and downloaded over 7 million pirated ones too, a judge said”, in Business Insider‎[4]:
      Alsup wrote that Anthropic preferred to “steal” books to “avoid ‘legal/practice/business slog,’ as cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei put it.”
  3. (countable, cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.

Translations

Translations

Verb

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)[5]
      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.

Translations

Derived terms

noun and verb

Anagrams

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sloːˀ/, [ˈsl̥oˀ]

Verb

slog

  1. past tense of slå

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish sluicid,[2] from Proto-Celtic *slunketi (compare Welsh llyncu and Breton lonkañ).

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /sˠl̪ˠɔɡ/; /sˠl̪ˠoɟ/ (corresponding to the form sloig)
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /sˠl̪ˠuɡ/; /ˈsl̪ˠiɟ/ (corresponding to the form sloig)
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /sˠl̪ˠʌɡ/[3]

Verb

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

  1. to swallow

Conjugation

conjugation of slog (first conjugation – A)
verbal noun slogadh
past participle slogtha
tense singular plural relative autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative
present slogaim slogann tú;
slogair† 		slogann sé, sí slogaimid slogann sibh slogann siad;
slogaid† 		a shlogann; a shlogas /
a slogann* 		slogtar
past shlog mé; shlogas shlog tú; shlogais shlog sé, sí shlogamar; shlog muid shlog sibh; shlogabhair shlog siad; shlogadar a shlog /
ar shlog* 		slogadh
past habitual shlogainn / slogainn‡‡ shlogtá / slogtᇇ shlogadh sé, sí / slogadh sé, s퇇 shlogaimis; shlogadh muid / slogaimis‡‡; slogadh muid‡‡ shlogadh sibh / slogadh sibh‡‡ shlogaidís; shlogadh siad / slogaidís‡‡; slogadh siad‡‡ a shlogadh /
a slogadh* 		shlogtaí / slogta퇇
future slogfaidh mé;
slogfad 		slogfaidh tú;
slogfair† 		slogfaidh sé, sí slogfaimid;
slogfaidh muid 		slogfaidh sibh slogfaidh siad;
slogfaid† 		a shlogfaidh; a shlogfas /
a slogfaidh* 		slogfar
conditional shlogfainn / slogfainn‡‡ shlogfá / slogfᇇ shlogfadh sé, sí / slogfadh sé, s퇇 shlogfaimis; shlogfadh muid / slogfaimis‡‡; slogfadh muid‡‡ shlogfadh sibh / slogfadh sibh‡‡ shlogfaidís; shlogfadh siad / slogfaidís‡‡; slogfadh siad‡‡ a shlogfadh /
a slogfadh* 		shlogfaí / slogfa퇇
subjunctive
present go sloga mé;
go slogad† 		go sloga tú;
go slogair† 		go sloga sé, sí go slogaimid;
go sloga muid 		go sloga sibh go sloga siad;
go slogaid† 		— go slogtar
past dá slogainn dá slogtá dá slogadh sé, sí dá slogaimis;
dá slogadh muid 		dá slogadh sibh dá slogaidís;
dá slogadh siad 		— dá slogtaí
imperative
– slogaim slog slogadh sé, sí slogaimis slogaigí;
slogaidh† 		slogaidís — slogtar

* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Yola: slug

Mutation

Mutated forms of slog
radical lenition eclipsis
slog shlog
after an, tslog 		not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “slog”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sluicid, slocaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Hamilton, John Noel (1974) A Phonetic Study of the Irish of Tory Island, Co. Donegal (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 3), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University Belfast, page 323

Further reading

Old English

Verb

slōg

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ložiti.

Noun

slȍg m inan (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

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sluːɡ/

Verb

slog

  1. past indicative of slå
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