Definitions for: Bog


[n] 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
[v] get stuck while doing something; "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation"
[v] cause to slow down or get stuck; "The vote would bog down the house"



Webster (1913) Definition: Bog, n. [Ir. & Gael. bog soft, tender, moist: cf. Ir.
bogach bog, moor, marsh, Gael. bogan quagmire.]
1. 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.

Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of
treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. --R.
Jago.

2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and
grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.]

Bog bean. See Buck bean.

Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise), Bog blitter,
Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, the bittern. [Prov.]

Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found
in the peat bogs of Ireland.

Bog earth (Min.), a soil composed for the most part of
silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. --P. Cyc.

Bog moss. (Bot.) Same as Sphagnum.

Bog myrtle (Bot.), the sweet gale.

Bog ore. (Min.)
(a) An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a
variety of brown iron ore, or limonite.
(b) Bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of manganese.

Bog rush (Bot.), any rush growing in bogs; saw grass.

Bog spavin. See under Spavin.


Bog, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bogged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bogging.]
To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to
sink and stick, as in mud and mire.

At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the
slough of Lochend. --Sir W.
Scott.

Synonyms: bog down, peat bog

See Also: break, break off, discontinue, mire, morass, quagmire, slough, slow, slow down, slow up, stop, wetland

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