bog
Dictionary
noun
- An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
- Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
- The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
- 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.
verb
- (now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
- To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
- (now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
- To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
- (originally vulgar Britain) To defecate, to void one's bowels.
- (originally vulgar Britain) To cover or spray with excrement.
- To make a mess of something.
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