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Bog Definition And Meaning |
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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. |
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