bog
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.
- An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking: An acidic, chiefly rain-fed (ombrotrophic), peat-forming wetland. (Contrast an alkaline fen, and swamps and marshes.)
- An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking: Boggy ground.
- Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
- A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
- An act or instance of defecation.
- A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
- Chicken bog.
- Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.
- Puffery, boastfulness.
- Initialism of boots on the ground.
Verb
- To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
- To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
- To sink and stick in bogland.
- To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
- To defecate, to void one's bowels.
- To cover or spray with excrement.
- To make a mess of something.
- To provoke, to bug.
- To go away.
- To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance.
- To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or conspicuously unnatural result.
Adjective
- Bold; boastful; proud.
Proper noun
- Initialism of Bank of Ghana.
- Initialism of (Federal Reserve) Board of Governors-board-of-governors).
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