bog

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.

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Simplified etymology

Bog entered English in the Middle English period from Gaelic bog, meaning “soft.” Its British slang sense “toilet,” recorded from the mid-18th century, developed from the earlier compound bog-house.

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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