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BOG
bog, peat bog
(noun) wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
bog (plural bogs)
(Originally Irish & Scottish) An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
(figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
(uncountable) The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
(UK, Ireland, AU, &, NZ colloquial) A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
(AU & NZ colloquial) An act or instance of defecation.
(US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
Synonyms
• (wet spongy areas or ground): bogland, bogmire, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, morass, peat bog, slough, swamp, swampland, quagmire, wetlands; moss (Scottish); pakihi (NZ); muskeg (Canadian)
• (any place or thing that impedes progress): mire, quagmire
• (toilet): See also toilet and bathroom
Hyponyms
• (small marsh): boglet
Verb
bog (third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged)
(transitive, now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
(figuratively) to prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
(intransitive, now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
(figuratively) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
(intransitive, originally coarse UK, now, chiefly, AU) To defecate, to void one's bowels.
(transitive, originally coarse UK, now, chiefly, AU) To cover or spray with excrement.
(transitive, British, informal) To make a mess of something.
Etymology 2
Noun
bog (plural bogs)
(obsolete) Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.
Etymology 3
Adjective
bog (comparative bogger, superlative boggest)
(obsolete) Bold; boastful; proud.
Noun
bog (plural bogs)
(obsolete) Puffery, boastfulness.
Verb
bog (third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged)
(transitive, obsolete) To provoke, to bug.
Etymology 4
Verb
bog (third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged)
(euphemistic, slang, British, usually with "off") To go away.
Anagrams
• gob
Noun
BOG
(military) Initialism of boots on the ground.
Anagrams
• gob
Source: Wiktionary
Bog, n. Etym: [Ir. & Gael. bog soft, tender, moist: cf. Ir. bogach bog, moor, marsh, Gael. bogan quagmire.]
1. A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass. Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. R. Jago.
2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.] Bog bean. See Buck bean.
– Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise), Bog blitter, Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, the bittern. [Prov.] -- Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland.
– Bog earth (Min.), a soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. P. Cyc.
– Bog moss. (Bot.) Same as Sphagnum.
– Bog myrtle (Bot.), the sweet gale.
– Bog ore. (Min.) (a) An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a variety of brown iron ore, or limonite. (b) Bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of manganese.
– Bog rush (Bot.), any rush growing in bogs; saw grass.
– Bog spavin. See under Spavin.
Bog, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bogged; p. pr. & vb. n. Bogging.]
Definition: To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire. At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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