Bog

Quick meaning: Bog is a noun meaning An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.

Meaning

An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
2. (Australia and New Zealand, slang) An act or instance of defecation.
3. (US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
4. (US) Chicken bog.
5. (transitive, now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
6. (figuratively) To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
7. (UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, slang) A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: fen, slough, moor

Bog may by draining be made Meadow.

They that ride so... fall into foule Boggs.

[W]e entered a region where the stream widened out and formed a considerable bog.

Word Forms

• bogs
• bogg
• bogge
• boghe
• bogging
• bogged
• bogue
• bogger
• boggest

Synonyms for bog

Depending on context, synonyms include mire, quagmire, morass, marsh, swamp, fen.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fen, marsh, muskeg, peatland, swamp, peat.

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