Bog
[bɒg] or [bɑɡ]
Definition
(noun.) wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel.
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Definition
(n.) A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
(n.) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
(v. t.) To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.
Typist: Theodore
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Morass, quagmire, slough, fen, marsh, swamp.
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Definition
n. soft ground: a marsh or quagmire.—v.t. to sink or to entangle.—n. Bog′-butt′er a mineral substance resembling butter found in Irish bogs.—adj. Bogg′y.—ns. Bog′let Bog′land; Bog′-moss a genus of moss plants; Bog′-oak trunks of oak embedded in bogs and preserved from decay—of a deep black colour often used for making ornaments; Bog′-ore a kind of iron ore found in boggy land; Bog′-spav′in a lesion of the hock-joint of the horse consisting in distension of the capsule enclosing the joint usually arising suddenly from a sprain in action; Bog′-trot′ter one who lives in a boggy country hence an Irishman.
Editor: Simon
Unserious Contents or Definition
Bogs, denotes burdens under whose weight you feel that endeavors to rise are useless. Illness and other worries may oppress you. See Swamp.
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Examples
- I took four lessons, and then I stuck fast in a grammatical bog. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It's the worst road to travel after dark that can be: there's no track at all over the bog. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Right across the lower part of the bog lay a miry path. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A good rice field is a bog at all seasons, and at one season a bog covered with water. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- An immense bog, called Chat Moss, had to be crossed, and Stephenson was the only one of the engineers concerned who did not doubt whether such a crossing were really possible. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The traces of the bog were removed from it; the creases left by the wet smoothed out: it was quite decent. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- For the bogs of technical stupidity and empty formalism are always near and always dangerous. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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