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Cadzao Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Sogging

Dos Passos wrote:

"(...) like plenty of other Americans, young Henry grew up hating the endless sogging through the mud about the chores, the hauling and pitching manure, the kerosene lamps to clean, the irk and sweat and solitude of the farm."

1. What does sogging mean?

2. What does the author mean by the mud about the chores?

Please help!

Thank you.

Cadzao
  

Top answer

#1 Sogging - describes the uncomfortable feelings of getting the clothes soaked with wet mud while choring about the farm. # 2 is about the hauling and pitching manure, the kerosene lamps to clean, the irk and sweat and solitude of the farm.

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  • #1 Sogging - describes the uncomfortable feelings of getting the clothes soaked with wet mud while choring about the farm.
  • # 2 is about the hauling and pitching manure, the kerosene lamps to clean, the irk and sweat and solitude of the farm.
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#1 Sogging - describes the uncomfortable feelings of getting the clothes soaked with wet mud while choring about the farm.

# 2 is about the hauling and pitching manure, the kerosene lamps to clean, the irk and sweat and solitude of the farm.
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1. Are you sure it wasn't 'slogging' through the mud? Slogging: 2 : to plod (one's way) perseveringly especially against difficulty intransitive verb 1 : to plod heavily : http://209.161.33.50/dictionary/tramp <slogged through the snow>
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I know only "soggy" as an adjective. Its extension here is quite creative.
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Thank you, Nona and Philip, for your help.
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