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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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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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