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bog

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Noun

  1. An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.
  2. 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.)
  3. An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking: Boggy ground.
  4. Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
  5. A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
  6. An act or instance of defecation.
  7. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
  8. Chicken bog.
  9. Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.
  10. Puffery, boastfulness.
  11. Initialism of boots on the ground.

Verb

  1. To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
  2. To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
  3. To sink and stick in bogland.
  4. To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
  5. To defecate, to void one's bowels.
  6. To cover or spray with excrement.
  7. To make a mess of something.
  8. To provoke, to bug.
  9. To go away.
  10. To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance.
  11. To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or conspicuously unnatural result.

Adjective

  1. Bold; boastful; proud.

Proper noun

  1. Initialism of Bank of Ghana.
  2. Initialism of (Federal Reserve) Board of Governors-board-of-governors).

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