bog
nounverbnounadjectivenounverbverbverbattested in dialogue
- United States//bɔɡ//
- United States//bɑɡ//
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An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.
noun
- 1
An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.
Near-synonyms: fen, slough, moor
They that ride so... fall into foule Boggs.
Certaine... places [in Ireland]... which of their softnes are vsually tearmed Boghes.
Bog may by draining be made Meadow.
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An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking. An acidic, chiefly rain-fed (ombrotrophic), peat-forming wetland. (Contrast an alkaline fen, and swamps and marshes.)
Bogs are acidic, nutrient poor, and have a low species diversity, whereas fens are less acidic and have higher nutrient levels and species diversity. Typically, the herbaceous layer in bogs is dominated by sphagnum moss, whereas[…]
Bogs are acidic peatlands, characteristic of boreal forests and mountainous regions (Figures 9.3 and 9.4). Their hydrology is precipitation driven as bogs do not receive floodwaters from neighboring rivers and streams[…]
Bogs are acidic peatlands, while fens are non-acidic peatlands. The thick mat of dead plants forms sphagnum moss and peat, which is where we get our peat moss. Over a long period of time, the bog may fill up and a forest will grow in[…]
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An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking. Boggy ground.
He laughed each time a camel sank down, and he laughed as they strained and pulled and struggled to get the beast on to its clumsy feet again. So sure on sand, so clumsy in bog!
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figurativeConfusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
...quagmires and bogges of Romish superstition...
Last day my mind was in a bog.
He wandered out again, in a perfect bog of uncertainty.
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slangA place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
I'm on the bog
I'm in the bog
Fearing I should catch cold, they out of pity covered me warm in a Bogg-house.
...That no dirt... be thrown out of any window, or down the bogs...
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slangAn act or instance of defecation.
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A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
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Chicken bog.
Damon does emphasize that great red rice should always be fluffy and never mushy like a rice bog.
I love Chicken Bog because it's one of those very regional recipes that has survived […] Don't skim or otherwise remove the fat from the stock though—it will help flavor the bog. Let the chicken cool and then pick the meat, setting it aside for the bog recipe that follows. The broth will[…]
Chicken and rice bog for their supper so she wouldn't have to cook.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bog (originally chiefly in Ireland and Scotland), from Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach (“soft, boggy ground”), from Old Irish bog (“soft”), from Proto-Celtic *buggos (“soft, tender”) + Old Irish -ach, from Proto-Celtic *-ākos. The frequent use to form compounds regarding the animals and plants in such areas mimics Irish compositions such as bog-luachair (“bulrush, bogrush”). Its use for toilets is now often derived from the resemblance of latrines and outhouse cesspools to bogholes, but the noun sense appears to be a clipped form of boghouse (“outhouse, privy”), which derived (possibly via boggard) from the verb to bog, still used in Australian English. The derivation and its connection to other senses of "bog" remains uncertain, however, owing to an extreme lack of early citations due to its perceived vulgarity.
verb
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To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
To be 'bogged down' or 'mired down' is to be mired, generally in the 'wet valleys' in the spring.
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figurativeTo prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
[…] Bogg'd in his filthy Lusts […]
[…] whose profession to forsake the World... bogs them deeper into the world.
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To sink and stick in bogland.
Duncan Graham in Gartmore his horse bogged; that the deponent helped some others to take the horse out of the bogg.
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figurativeTo be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
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To defecate, to void one's bowels.
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To cover or spray with excrement.
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informalTo make a mess of something.
noun
- 1
Variant of bugobsoleteAlternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.
Etymology
See bug
adjective
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obsoleteBold; boastful; proud.
The Cuckooe, seeing him so bog, waxt also wondrous wroth.
Bogge, bold, forward, sawcy. So we say, a very bog Fellow.
Etymology
Uncertain, although possibly related to bug in its original senses of "big" and "puffed up".
noun
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obsoletePuffery, boastfulness.
Their bog it nuver ceases.
verb
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obsoleteTo provoke, to bug.
If you had not written to me... we had broke now, the Frenchmen bogged us so often with departing.
A Frencheman: whom he [Manlius Torquatus] slew, being bogged [Latin: provocatus] by hym.
verb
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slangTo go away.
Etymology
From bug off, a clipping of bugger off, likely under the influence of bog (coarse British slang for "toilet[s]").
verb
- 1
To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance.
- 2
To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or conspicuously unnatural result.
My nose is already pretty good and I don't want to bog myself.
Etymology
From an abbreviation of Bogdanoff, in reference to Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff.
Forms
- plural
- bogs
- comparative
- bogger
- superlative
- boggest
- past tense
- bogged
- past participle
- bogged
- present participle
- bogging
- third person singular
- bogs
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