bog

Meanings

Plural: bogs

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
An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; any swamp, marsh or mire.
An acidic, chiefly rain-fed (ombrotrophic), peat-forming wetland. (Contrast an alkaline fen, and swamps and marshes.)
An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; any swamp, marsh or mire.
Boggy ground.
An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; any swamp, marsh or mire.
Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
An act or instance of defecation.
A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
Chicken bog.
Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.
Puffery, boastfulness.

Verb

cause to slow down or get stuck
- "The vote would bog down the house"
get stuck while doing something
- "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation"
To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
To sink and stick in bogland.
To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
To defecate, to void one's bowels.
To cover or spray with excrement.
To make a mess of something.
To provoke, to bug.
To go away.
To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance.
To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or conspicuously unnatural result.

Adj

Bold; boastful; proud.

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

bog down, mire, peat bog, quagmire, swamp

Scrabble Score: 6

bog is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
bog is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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Words With Friends Score: 8

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