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bog

1  [bog, bawg] noun, verb, bogged, bog⋅ging.
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–noun
1. wet, spongy ground with soil composed mainly of decayed vegetable matter.
2. an area or stretch of such ground.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
3. to sink in or as if in a bog (often fol. by down): We were bogged down by overwork.
—Verb phrase
4. bog in, Australian Slang. to eat heartily and ravenously.
Origin:
1495–1505; < Ir or ScotGael bogach soft ground (bog soft + -ach n. suffix); (def. 4) perh. a different word

Related forms:
boggish, adjective
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2  [bog, bawg]
–noun Usually, bogs. British Slang.
a lavatory; bathroom.
Origin:
1780–90; prob. shortening of bog-house; cf. bog to defecate, boggard (16th century) privy, of obscure orig.
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bog   (bôg, bŏg)   
n.  

    1. 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. Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. Also called peat bog.

  2. An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.

v.   bogged, bog·ging, bogs

v.   tr.
To cause to sink in or as if in a bog: We worried that the heavy rain across the prairie would soon bog our car. Don't bog me down in this mass of detail.
v.   intr.
To be hindered and slowed.

[Irish Gaelic bogach, from bog, soft; see bheug- in Indo-European roots.]
bog'gi·ness n., bog'gy adj.
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Word Origin & History

bog 
c.1505, from Gaelic & Irish bogach "bog," from adj. bog "soft, moist," from PIE *bhugh-, from base *bheugh- "to bend." Bog-trotter applied to the wild Irish c.1682.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
BOG
El Dorado International Airport (Bogotá, Colombia)
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