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What does bog mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word bog? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (Originally Ireland and Scotland) An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
  2. (figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
  3. (uncountable) The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
  4. (vulgar Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand slang) A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
  5. (Australia and New Zealand slang) An act or instance of defecation.
  6. (US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
Verb
  1. (transitive, now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland, especially:
    1. (figuratively) to prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
  2. (intransitive, now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland, especially:
    1. (figuratively) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
  3. (transitive, Britain, informal) To make a mess of something.
Noun
  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.
Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Bold; boastful; proud.
Noun
  1. (obsolete) Puffery, boastfulness.
Verb
  1. (transitive, obsolete) To provoke, to bug.
Verb
  1. (euphemistic, slang, Britain, usually with "off") To go away.
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