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bog

noun
/bɔɡ/US/bɑɡ//bɒɡ/UK

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.

  1. derived from *-ākos✻
  2. derived from -ach
  3. derived from *buggos✻
  4. derived from bog
  5. derived from bogach
  6. inherited from bog

Definitions

  1. An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy…

    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.

  2. Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of…

    Confusion, 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.

  3. A place to defecate

    A 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.
  4. ›+ 20 more definitions

    1. An act or instance of defecation.

    2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.

    3. Chicken bog.

      • Damon does emphasize that great red rice should always be fluffy and never mushy like a rice bog.
      • Chicken and rice bog for their supper so she wouldn't have to cook.

    4. 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.

    5. To 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.

    6. 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.

    7. To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.

    8. To defecate, to void one's bowels.

    9. To cover or spray with excrement.

    10. To make a mess of something.

    11. Alternative form of bug

      Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.

    12. Bold

      Bold; boastful; proud.

      • The Cuckooe, seeing him so bog, waxt also wondrous wroth.
      • Bogge, bold, forward, sawcy. So we say, a very bog Fellow.

    13. Puffery, boastfulness.

      • Their bog it nuver ceases.

    14. To 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.

    15. To go away.

    16. To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial…

      To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance.

    17. To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or…

      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.

    18. Initialism of boots on the ground.

    19. Initialism of Bank of Ghana.

    20. Initialism of (Federal Reserve) Board of Governors.

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Derived

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, boghole · +87 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bog. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA