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Definitions
- 1 Bold; boastful; proud. obsolete
"The Cuckooe, seeing him so bog, waxt also wondrous wroth."
- 1 Initialism of Bank of Ghana. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 2 Initialism of (Federal Reserve) Board of Governors. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"The BoG is a body of seven members located in Washington, appointed by the president and approved by the senate. The FOMC, which we think of as making monetary policy decisions, is made up of the members of the BoG plus the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and four other rotating regional reserve bank presidents."
- 1 An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.
"Near-synonyms: fen, slough, moor"
- 2 Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror. alt-of, alternative, obsolete
- 3 Puffery, boastfulness. obsolete
"Their bog it nuver ceases."
- 4 Initialism of boots on the ground. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 5 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 wordnet
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- 6 An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.; An acidic, chiefly rain-fed (ombrotrophic), peat-forming wetland. (Contrast an alkaline fen, and swamps and marshes.) specifically
"Bogs are acidic, nutrient poor, and have a low species diversity, whereas fens are less acidic and have higher nutrient levels and species diversity. Typically, the herbaceous layer in bogs is dominated by sphagnum moss, whereas[…]"
- 7 An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.; Boggy ground. uncountable
"He laughed each time a camel sank down, and he laughed as they strained and pulled and struggled to get the beast on to its clumsy feet again. So sure on sand, so clumsy in bog!"
- 8 Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas. figuratively
"...quagmires and bogges of Romish superstition..."
- 9 A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet. Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, slang
"I'm on the bog"
- 10 An act or instance of defecation. Australia, New-Zealand, slang
- 11 A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. US, dialectal
- 12 Chicken bog. US
"Damon does emphasize that great red rice should always be fluffy and never mushy like a rice bog."
- 1 To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland. often, transitive
"To be 'bogged down' or 'mired down' is to be mired, generally in the 'wet valleys' in the spring."
- 2 To provoke, to bug. obsolete, transitive
"If you had not written to me... we had broke now, the Frenchmen bogged us so often with departing."
- 3 To go away. British, euphemistic, slang, usually
- 4 To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance. Internet, transitive
- 5 get stuck while doing something wordnet
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- 6 To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress. figuratively
"[…] Bogg'd in his filthy Lusts […]"
- 7 To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or conspicuously unnatural result. Internet, reflexive
"My nose is already pretty good and I don't want to bog myself."
- 8 cause to slow down or get stuck wordnet
- 9 To sink and stick in bogland. intransitive, often
"Duncan Graham in Gartmore his horse bogged; that the deponent helped some others to take the horse out of the bogg."
- 10 To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck. figuratively
- 11 To defecate, to void one's bowels. Australia, intransitive
- 12 To cover or spray with excrement. Australia, transitive
- 13 To make a mess of something. British, informal, transitive
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.
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.
See bug
Uncertain, although possibly related to bug in its original senses of "big" and "puffed up".
Uncertain, although possibly related to bug in its original senses of "big" and "puffed up".
Uncertain, although possibly related to bug in its original senses of "big" and "puffed up".
From bug off, a clipping of bugger off, likely under the influence of bog (coarse British slang for "toilet[s]").
From an abbreviation of Bogdanoff, in reference to Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff.
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