bog
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: bogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bogg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bogge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: boghe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bogs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bogging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bogged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bogged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bogg
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bogue
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
[W]e entered a region where the stream widened out and formed a considerable bog.
[Cedar Bog] is a living museum of plants that once were spread over a far wider area. It is the southernmost such alkaline bog in North America, and teachers take their classes there to study this unique natural area.[…]
You're dancing in quicksand
Why don't you watch where you're wandering?
Why don't you watch where you're stumbling?
You're wading knee deep and going in
And you may never come back again
This bog is thick and easy to get lost in
U-Mos: 'The swamplands of Torvus are treacherous, and can hinder you considerably. Bear this in mind as you move through the bog.'
gloss: An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.
pos: noun
tags: specifically
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[…]
gloss: An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
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!
gloss: Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
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.
gloss: A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
slang
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.
...That no dirt... be thrown out of any window, or down the bogs...
Bog, or bog-house, a privy as distinguished from a water-closet.
Our lodger had our upstairs, use of the stove, our tap, and our bog.
gloss: An act or instance of defecation.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
gloss: A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
pos: noun
tags: US
dialectal
gloss: Chicken bog.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: 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.
gloss: To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
pos: verb
tags: often
transitive
examples: To be 'bogged down' or 'mired down' is to be mired, generally in the 'wet valleys' in the spring.
gloss: To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: […] Bogg'd in his filthy Lusts […]
[…] whose profession to forsake the World... bogs them deeper into the world.
gloss: To sink and stick in bogland.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
often
examples: Duncan Graham in Gartmore his horse bogged; that the deponent helped some others to take the horse out of the bogg.
gloss: To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
gloss: To defecate, to void one's bowels.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
intransitive
gloss: To cover or spray with excrement.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
transitive
gloss: To make a mess of something.
pos: verb
tags: UK
informal
transitive
Synonyms: morass. See swamp
Related words: bog-standard
Derived words: blanket bog
bog asphodel
bog beacon
bog bean
bog berry
bogberry
bog bilberry
bog-black
bog-blitter
bog blueberry
bog-bluiter
bog body
bog-brained
bog-bred
bog brush
bog-bumper
bog butter
bog-butter
bog chisel
bog cinquefoil
bog clubmoss
bog cotton
bog deal
bog-down
bog earth
bog fir
boggard
bog garden
bog gas
bogger
boggify
bogginess
boggo
boggy
boghaunter
bog hay
bog-hay
Boghead
bog-head
boghead
boghole
bog-hole
boghouse
bog Irish
bog iron
bog iron ore
bog-jumper
bogland
Bogland
Boglander
boglander
bog Latin
bog laurel
bogless
boglet
boglike
bogman
bog manganese
bog mine
bog mine ore
bogmire
bog-mold
bog moss
bog-mould
bog myrtle
bog nut
bog oak
bog onion
bog orange
bog orchid
bog orchis
bog ore
bog paper
bog peat
bog people
bog person
bog pimpernel
bog-pine
bog pink
bog-pit
bog-plant
bograt
bogroll
bog roll
bog rosemary
bogrush
bog-shop
bog snorkeling
bog spavin
bogspaving
bog stalker
bog standard
bogsucker
bog-timber
bog trefoil
bog-trot
bogtrotter
bogtrotting
bog-turf
bog turtle
bog violet
bog-water
bog-way
bog-wheel
bogwood
bogwort
bull-of-the-bog
cataract bog
chicken bog
cutaway bog
embog
featherbed bog
floating bog
mud bog
northern bog lemming
peatbog
peat bog
quaking bog
raised bog
string bog
unbog
boggish
bog down
bogged
bog in
bog into
bog up
de-bogging
mud bogging
bog off
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