bog
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noun (English)
1. An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.Examples: "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[…]"Synonyms: marsh#Noun, swamp#Noun, mire#Nounspecifically
2. An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.Examples: "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!"Synonyms: marsh#Noun, swamp#Noun, mire#Noununcountable
3. (figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.Examples: "...quagmires and bogges of Romish superstition..."; "Last day my mind was in a bog."; "He wandered out again, in a perfect bog of uncertainty."Synonyms: mire, quagmirefiguratively
4. (UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, slang) A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.Examples: "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."AustraliaIrelandNew-ZealandUKslang
5. (Australia and New Zealand, slang) An act or instance of defecation.AustraliaNew-Zealandslang
6. (US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.USdialectal
verb (English)
1. (transitive, now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.Examples: "To be 'bogged down' or 'mired down' is to be mired, generally in the 'wet valleys' in the spring."oftentransitive
2. (figuratively) To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.Examples: "[…] Bogg'd in his filthy Lusts […]"; "[…] whose profession to forsake the World... bogs them deeper into the world."figuratively
3. (intransitive, now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.Examples: "Duncan Graham in Gartmore his horse bogged; that the deponent helped some others to take the horse out of the bogg."intransitiveoften
4. (figuratively) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.figuratively
5. (intransitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To defecate, to void one's bowels.Australiaintransitive
6. (transitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To cover or spray with excrement.Australiatransitive
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.alt-ofalternativeobsolete
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Bold; boastful; proud.Examples: "The Cuckooe, seeing him so bog, waxt also wondrous wroth."; "Bogge, bold, forward, sawcy. So we say, a very bog Fellow."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Puffery, boastfulness.Examples: "Their bog it nuver ceases."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete) To provoke, to bug.Examples: "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."obsoletetransitive
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