Definition of "bog"

bog¹

/bɔɡ/

noun
plural bogs
1. (originally Ireland and Scotland) An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
  Quotations
  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)
2. (figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
  Quotations
  ...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
3. (uncountable) The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
  Quotations
  Bog may by draining be made Meadow.
  a. 1687, William Petty, Political Arithmetick
4. (UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, slang) A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
  Quotations
  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
5. (Australia and New Zealand, slang) An act or instance of defecation.
6. (US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
verb
third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged
1. (transitive, now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
  Quotations
  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
2. (figuratively) To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
  Quotations
  […] 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
3. (intransitive, now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
  Quotations
  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
4. (figuratively) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
5. (intransitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To defecate, to void one's bowels.
6. (transitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To cover or spray with excrement.
7. (transitive, Britain, informal) To make a mess of something.

bog²

/bɔɡ/

noun
plural bogs
1. (obsolete) Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.

bog³

/bɔɡ/

adjective
comparative bogger, superlative boggest
1. (obsolete) Bold; boastful; proud.
  Quotations
  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
noun
plural bogs
1. (obsolete) Puffery, boastfulness.
  Quotations
  Their bog it nuver ceases.
  1839, Charles Clark, John Noakes and Mary Styles, l. 3
verb
third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged
1. (transitive, obsolete) To provoke, to bug.
  Quotations
  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

bog⁴

/bɔɡ/

verb
third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged
1. (euphemistic, slang, Britain, usually with "off") To go away.

bog⁵

/bɔɡ/

verb
third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged
1. (4chan, Internet slang, transitive) To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance. See also botched.
2. (4chan, Internet slang, reflexive) To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or conspicuously unnatural result.
  Quotations
  My nose is already pretty good and I don't want to bog myself.
  2023 August 4, anonymous author, 4chan‎, /lgbt/

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