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Bog Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Bog? [n] 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 [v] get stuck while doing something; "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation" [v] cause to slow down or get stuck; "The vote would bog down the house" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Bog: bog down \| peat bog Related Terms \| Find terms related to Bog: baygall \| bemire \| bog down \| bottom \| bottomland \| bottoms \| buffalo wallow \| cesspool \| cloaca \| cloaca maxima \| drain \| dump \| everglade \| fen \| fenland \| garbage dump \| glade \| hog wallow \| holm \| marais \| marish \| marsh \| marshland \| meadow \| mere \| mire \| moor \| moorland \| morass \| moss \| mud \| mud flat \| peat bog \| quag \| quagmire \| quicksand \| salt marsh \| septic tank \| sewer \| sink \| sink in \| slob land \| slough \| sough \| stodge \| sump \| swale \| swamp \| swampland \| taiga \| wallow \| wash See Also \| break \| break off \| discontinue \| mire \| morass \| quagmire \| slough \| slow \| slow down \| slow up \| stop \| wetland Bog In Webster's Dictionary \Bog\, n. [Ir. & Gael. bog soft, tender, moist: cf. Ir. bogach bog, moor, marsh, Gael. bogan quagmire.] 1. A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass. Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. --R. Jago. 2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.] {Bog bean}. See {Buck bean}. {Bog bumper} (bump, to make a loud noise), {Bog blitter}, {Bog bluiter}, {Bog jumper}, the bittern. [Prov.] {Bog butter}, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland. {Bog earth} (Min.), a soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. --P. Cyc. {Bog moss}. (Bot.) Same as {Sphagnum}. {Bog myrtle} (Bot.), the sweet gale. {Bog ore}. (Min.) (a) An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a variety of brown iron ore, or limonite. (b) Bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of manganese. {Bog rush} (Bot.), any rush growing in bogs; saw grass. {Bog spavin}. See under {Spavin}. \Bog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bogged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bogging}.] To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire. At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend. --Sir W. Scott.

Bog Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Bog?

[n] 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
[v] get stuck while doing something; "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation"
[v] cause to slow down or get stuck; "The vote would bog down the house"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Bog: bog down | peat bog

Bog In Webster's Dictionary

\Bog\, n. [Ir. & Gael. bog soft, tender, moist: cf. Ir.
bogach bog, moor, marsh, Gael. bogan quagmire.]
1. A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable
   matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to
   sink; a marsh; a morass.

         Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of
         treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. --R.
                                               Jago.

2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and
   grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.]

{Bog bean}. See {Buck bean}.

{Bog bumper} (bump, to make a loud noise), {Bog blitter},
{Bog bluiter}, {Bog jumper}, the bittern. [Prov.]

{Bog butter}, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found
   in the peat bogs of Ireland.

{Bog earth} (Min.), a soil composed for the most part of
   silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. --P. Cyc.

{Bog moss}. (Bot.) Same as {Sphagnum}.

{Bog myrtle} (Bot.), the sweet gale.

{Bog ore}. (Min.)
   (a) An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a
       variety of brown iron ore, or limonite.
   (b) Bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of manganese.

{Bog rush} (Bot.), any rush growing in bogs; saw grass.

{Bog spavin}. See under {Spavin}.


\Bog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bogged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Bogging}.]
To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to
sink and stick, as in mud and mire.

      At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the
      slough of Lochend.                       --Sir W.
                                               Scott.

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