US /bɑɡ/ UK /bɒɡ/
noun verb

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    an area of soft, waterlogged, spongy ground; to become stuck

    The cart sank up to its axles in the peaty bog.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · an area of soft,... marshswampmirefenquagmiremorasswetlandslough
Word family
Forms boggedboggingboggy
Derived forms boggybogged

Etymology

From Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach ('bog'), from bog ('soft'), from Old Irish bocc ('soft'), from Proto-Celtic *buggos ('soft, tender').

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