bog

noun9

1. •
   An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.

   • They that ride so... fall into foule Boggs. — 1599
2. •
   An acidic, chiefly rain-fed (ombrotrophic), peat-forming wetland. (Contrast an alkaline fen, and swamps and marshes.)
3. •
   Boggy ground.

   • He laughed each time a camel sank down, and he laughed as they strained and pulled and struggled to get the beast on to its clumsy feet again. So sure on sand, so clumsy in bog! — 1931
4. •
   (UK, 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
5. •
   (figurative) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.

   • ...quagmires and bogges of Romish superstition... — 1614
6. •
   (Australia, slang) An act or instance of defecation.
7. •
   (US) Chicken bog.

   • Damon does emphasize that great red rice should always be fluffy and never mushy like a rice bog. — 2013
8. •
   (dialect, US) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
9. •
   (no longer used) Puffery, boastfulness.

   • Their bog it nuver ceases. — 1839

verb11

1. •
   To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.

   • To be 'bogged down' or 'mired down' is to be mired, generally in the 'wet valleys' in the spring. — 1928
2. •
   (figurative) To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.

   • […] Bogg'd in his filthy Lusts […] — 1605
3. •
   (figurative) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
4. •
   To sink and stick in bogland.

   • Duncan Graham in Gartmore his horse bogged; that the deponent helped some others to take the horse out of the bogg. — 1800
5. •
   (UK, slang) To go away.
6. •
   (UK, informal) To make a mess of something.
7. •
   (Australia, slang) To defecate, to void one's bowels.
8. •
   (Australia, slang) To cover or spray with excrement.
9. •
   (Internet) To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance.
10. •
    [with oneself] (Internet) To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or conspicuously unnatural result.

    • My nose is already pretty good and I don't want to bog myself. — 2023
11. •
    (no longer used) To provoke, to bug.

    • If you had not written to me... we had broke now, the Frenchmen bogged us so often with departing. — 1546

adjective1

1. •
   (no longer used) Bold; boastful; proud.

   • The Cuckooe, seeing him so bog, waxt also wondrous wroth. — 1592

noun1

1. •
   Initialism of boots on the ground.