BOGGING

Verb

bogging

present participle of bog

Adjective

bogging (comparative more bogging, superlative most bogging)

(Scotland, coarse, slang) Stinking; disgusting.

Source: Wiktionary

BOG

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