Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
bog . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
bog .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The custom of human sacrifice combined with the burial of the victims in bogs is connected to the Celtic culture of the time,
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People who have died in bogs turn leathery, whereas most bodies will decay to just the bones.
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Were these meetings in bogs pre-arranged or merely fortuitous?
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In B. C (Canada) the salicaire (purple loosestrife) is a Very Bad Plant, because it chokes out everything else in bogs especially.
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Mill was a marge of firm soil, along which a column could pass, in scrubby country, and between the bogs was a sort of bridge of dry land.
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On hearing this, off galloped Thorir and his men, but the bogs were a sort of quagmire, wherein the horses stuck fast; and remained wallowing and struggling for the greater part of the day, while the riders 'gave to the devil withal the wandering churl who had so befooled them.'
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Among these plains are immense tracts, called bogs, producing little else but heath and bog-myrtle.
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Many wetlands in the headwaters of river systems (such as bogs and river margins) probably perform a similar service.
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Because pocosins are found in broad, flat, upland areas far from large streams, they are ombrotrophic like northern bogs, meaning rain provides most of their water.
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Some small, but highly distinctive or rare communities, such as bogs and glades, have been protected by private organizations such as The Nature Conservancy.
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yarb commented on the word bogs
Slang: toilet(s).
Bloody fool ambulance-wallahs kidnapped some/Idle bystander (who they thought looked ill)/And left the suicide slumped in the bogs.
- Peter Reading, C, 1984
August 2, 2008