bog
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/bɒɡ/
English
Definitions
noun
- An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
- Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
- The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
- A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
verb
- (now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
- To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
- (now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
- To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
noun
- An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
- Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug.
- Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.“These flies are a bother. I’ll get some bug spray and kill them.”
- Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
noun
- A microfossil, particularly a foraminiferan.
noun
- Puffery, boastfulness.
verb
- To provoke, to bug.
adjective
- Bold; boastful; proud.
verb
- (usually with "off") To go away.
Related words
Synonyms
mirequagmireboglandbogmirefenmarshmarshlandmorassmossmuskegpakihipeat bogsloughswampswamplandwetlandsbogbogey