Definition of "bog"

They that ride so... fall into foule Boggs.

1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene vii], line 56

Certaine... places [in Ireland]... which of their softnes are vsually tearmed Boghes.

1612, John Speed, chapter IV, in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, volume IV, page 143

[W]e entered a region where the stream widened out and formed a considerable bog.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton

U-Mos: 'The swamplands of Torvus are treacherous, and can hinder you considerably. Bear this in mind as you move through the bog.'

2004 November 15, Retro Studios, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Nintendo, level/area: Main Energy Controller (Great Temple)

...quagmires and bogges of Romish superstition...

1614, John King, Vitis Palatina, page 30

Last day my mind was in a bog.

a. 1796, Robert Burns, Poems & Songs, volume I

He wandered out again, in a perfect bog of uncertainty.

1841, Charles Dickens, chapter LXXII, in Barnaby Rudge, page 358

Bog may by draining be made Meadow.

a. 1687, William Petty, Political Arithmetick

Fearing I should catch cold, they out of pity covered me warm in a Bogg-house.

1665, Richard Head et al., The English Rogue Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, volume I

...That no dirt... be thrown out of any window, or down the bogs...

a. 1789, Verses to John Howard F.R.S. on His State of Prisons and Lazarettos, published 1789, page 181

Bog, or bog-house, a privy as distinguished from a water-closet.

1864, J.C. Hotten, The Slang Dictionary, page 79

Our lodger had our upstairs, use of the stove, our tap, and our bog.

1959, William Golding, chapter I, in Free Fall, page 23

To be 'bogged down' or 'mired down' is to be mired, generally in the 'wet valleys' in the spring.

1928, American Dialect Society, American Speech, volume IV, page 132

[…] Bogg'd in his filthy Lusts […]

1605, Ben Jonson, Seianus His Fall, act IV, scene i, line 217

[…] whose profession to forsake the World... bogs them deeper into the world.

1641, John Milton, Animadversions, page 58

Duncan Graham in Gartmore his horse bogged; that the deponent helped some others to take the horse out of the bogg.

a. 1800, The Trials of James, Duncan, and Robert M'Gregor, Three Sons of the Celebrated Rob Roy, page 120

The Cuckooe, seeing him so bog, waxt also wondrous wroth.

1592, William Warner, chapter XXXVII, in Albions England, volume VII, page 167

Bogge, bold, forward, sawcy. So we say, a very bog Fellow.

1691, John Ray, South and East Country Words, page 90

Their bog it nuver ceases.

1839, Charles Clark, John Noakes and Mary Styles, l. 3

If you had not written to me... we had broke now, the Frenchmen bogged us so often with departing.

1546, State Papers King Henry the Eighth, volume XI, published 1852, page 163

A Frencheman: whom he [Manlius Torquatus] slew, being bogged [Latin: provocatus] by hym.

1556, Nicholas Grimald's translation of Cicero as Marcus Tullius Ciceroes Thre Bokes of Duties to Marcus His Sonne, Vol. III, p. 154

My nose is already pretty good and I don't want to bog myself.

2023 August 4, anonymous author, 4chan‎, /lgbt/