bog

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  1. noun An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.
  2. noun Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. Also called peat bog.
  3. noun An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.
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  • His body sank lower and lower, until the surface of the bog was almost level with his armpits. —  The Camp in the Snow, or, Besieged by Danger
  • When, formerly, I have analyzed my partiality for some farm which I had contemplated purchasing, I have frequently found that I was attracted solely by a few square rods of impermeable and unfathomable bog--a natural sink in one corner of it. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
  • Sure it wasn't any place at all, but one of thim kind of places as the name on has shlipped me mimry, a bog, sorr--leastways it wasn't a bog as ye'd rightly call a bog in Oireland, sorr--no turf nor there wasn't no wather. —  Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918
  • When you have been such an ass as to ride your horse into a bog, there is a good deal of excuse for your botching getting the beast out again, as that is in the nature of things a difficult job. —  Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918
  • Matthew's been gone all day to the bog, and isn't home yet. —  Adrift in the Ice-Fields
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swamp ·  morass ·  fen ·  quagmire ·  mire ·  muskeg ·  lagoon ·  gulf ·  slime ·  ditch ·  moor ·  puddle

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bog:   bogged ·  bogs
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Etymologies (7)

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  1. Irish Gaelic bogach, from bog, soft; see bheug- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly bogge, from Irish bogach = Gaelic bogan, a bog, morass, from Irish Gaelic bog, soft, moist, tender, in comp. bog-.
  2. from bog, n.
  3. Early modern English bogge, apparently a variant of the equivalent bug, Middle English bugge, connecting the latter with the equivalent boggle, bogle, bogy, boggard: see these words.
  4. English dial., formerly also bogge, earlier in deriv. form boggish, q. v. Cf. bug, big.
  5. from bog, a. or n.
  6. English dial.; origin unknown.
 

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