bog in English dictionary

  • bog

    Meanings and definitions of "bog"

    • An expanse of marshland.
    • (Irish, UK, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A toilet.
    • (intransitive, informal) To become (figuratively or literally) mired or stuck.
    • (transitive, UK, informal) To make a mess of something.
    • (euphemism, slang, UK, with "off") To go away.
    • adjective
      (obsolete)
      Bold; boastful; proud.
    • noun
      (Originally Ireland and Scotland)
      An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
    • noun
      (figuratively)
      Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
    • noun
      (uncountable)
      The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
    • noun
      (vulgar Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand slang)
      A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
    • noun
      (Australia and New Zealand slang)
      An act or instance of defecation.
    • noun
      (US, dialect)
      A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      Alternative form of [i]bug[/i]: a bugbear, monster, or terror.
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      Puffery, boastfulness.
    • verb
      (euphemistic, slang, Britain, usually with "off")
      To go away.
    • verb
      (transitive, obsolete)
      To provoke, to bug.
    • verb
      (transitive, now often with "down")
      To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland, especially:
    • verb
      (intransitive, now often with "down")
      To sink and stick in bogland, especially:
    • verb
      (intransitive, Originally vulgar Britain, now chiefly Australia)
      To shit, to void one's bowels.
    • verb
      (transitive, Originally vulgar Britain, now chiefly Australia)
      To cover or spray with shit, to defile with excrement.
    • verb
      (transitive, Britain, informal)
      To make a mess of something.
    • expanse of marshland
    • coarse slang: a toilet
    • A stretch waterlogged, spongy ground, chiefly composed of decaying vegetable matter, especially of rushes, cotton grass, and sphagnum moss.
    • A room or building equipped with one or more toilets.
    • noun
      wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel
    • verb
      cause to slow down or get stuck; "The vote would bog down the house"
    • verb
      get stuck while doing something; "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation"

    Synonyms of "bog" in English dictionary

    stop, discontinue, break off are the top synonyms of "bog" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of bog

    • bog ( third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged)
    • bog ( plural  bogs)
    • lp  liczba pojedyncza bog lm  liczba mnoga bogs bog, bogged, bogged, bogs, bogging
    • bog (comparative bogger, superlative boggest)
    • bog (plural bogs)
    • bog (third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged)
  • BOG

    Meanings and definitions of "bog"

    • noun
      (not used outside of military)
      Initialism of [i]boots on the ground[/i].

    Grammar and declension of bog

    • BOG (plural BOGs)
  • Bog

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