Lexicographical Neighbors of Scogging
Literary usage of Scogging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Descriptive History of the Steam Engine by Robert Stuart (1824)
"f * " To scog, to be found scogging, ... scoggan, as the operation which it
performed enabled the boy to be scogging, instead of attending to his business. ..."
2. A Descriptive History of the Steam Engine by Robert Stuart (1824)
"f * " To scog, to be found scogging, ... scoggan, as the operation which it
performed enabled the boy to be scogging, instead of attending to his business. ..."
3. Five Old Plays: Illustrating the Early Progress of the English Drama by Roxburghe Club (1851)
"For my name is neither scogging] Not spelt with a capital in the old copies, but
apparently an allusion to the old court-fool Scoggin, ..."
4. Stuart's Descriptive History of the Steam Engine by Robert Stuart (1831)
"f * " To scog, to be found scogging, ... scoggan, as the operation which it
performed enabled the boy to be scogging, instead of attending to his business. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"scogging, adj. boastful, self-important. Scoot, n. a corner, or division of a
field, marked off for some purpose. Scowl-of-brow, judging by the eye instead ..."
6. Publications by Parish Register Society, London, London Parish Register Society, Florida State Historical Society, Deland, Deland Florida State Historical Society, Reparations Commission, North Carolina Historical Commission, Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Yorkshire (1902)
"B. Elisabeth, Dr of John & Ann scogging, buried July ye 26th. B. William Son of
Wm & Bridget Peck, buried Aug4 ye 15th. X. Thomas, Son of Wm & Hannah Rhodes ..."
7. The British Essayists edited by Alexander Chalmers (1808)
"... into which stepped his Lordship's secretary; the second was hung a little
heavier ; into that strutted the fat steward : * scogging was a buffoon in the ..."
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