bog

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noun

Plural noun:

bogsboggboggeboghebug

1.
An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.
Near-synonyms: fen, slough, moor
Đồng nghĩa: marsh, swamp, mire, fen, slough, moor
2.
(figuratively)Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
3.
(Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, slang)(UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, slang) A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
I'm on the bog
I'm in the bog
4.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang)(Australia and New Zealand, slang) An act or instance of defecation.
5.
(US, dialectal)(US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
6.
(US)Chicken bog.
7.
(alt of, alternative, obsolete)Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.
8.
(obsolete)Puffery, boastfulness.

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verb

V_es/s

bogs

V_ing/Gerund

bogging

V_ed/pp

boggedbogg

1.
(often, transitive)(transitive, now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
2.
(figuratively)To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
3.
(intransitive, often)(intransitive, now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
4.
(figuratively)To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
5.
(Australia, intransitive)(intransitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To defecate, to void one's bowels.
6.
(Australia, transitive)(transitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To cover or spray with excrement.
7.
(British, informal, transitive)To make a mess of something.
8.
(obsolete, transitive)To provoke, to bug.
A Frencheman: whom he [Manlius Torquatus] slew, being bogged [Latin: provocatus] by hym.
9.
(British, euphemistic, slang, usually)(euphemistic, slang, British, usually with "off") To go away.
10.
(Internet, transitive)(4chan, Internet slang, transitive) To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance.
11.
(Internet, reflexive)(4chan, Internet slang, reflexive) To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or conspicuously unnatural result.

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

boggerboggest

Superlative

bug

1.
(obsolete)Bold; boastful; proud.

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Đồng nghĩa

marsh swamp mire fen slough moormarsh#Nounswamp#Nounmire#Nounmorass quagmirewet spongy areas or ground morass. See swamp

Cùng gốc / liên quan

boggyboggishbogginessboggifylike a marsh boggy, boggishmarshy quality bogginessto create a marsh boggifybog-standard

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Middle English bog (originally chiefly in Ireland and Scotland), from Irish - and bogach (soft, boggy ground), from bog (soft), from *buggos (soft, tender) + -ach, from *-ākos.